I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps,… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be… — Oscar Munoz Copy Share Image
“Abnormally irradiated air may eventually be proven to present long term toxicity to the sea level adapted human.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television. — James Frain Copy Share Image
If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image