Adaptation Quote by Alfred de Vigny

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

“Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt…

— Isabel Allende

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to…

— Ray Bradbury

“One of the first discoveries of his captivity was that interest in 'news' does not spring from genuine curiosity, but from the desire for…

— Evelyn Waugh

“He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the…

— Lawrence Durrell

“The man saw no adventure, no challenge, no conquest, no sweat, and no sense of accomplishment in what we were about to do –…

— Barbara Savage

“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought…

— Andrew Coster

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He hadn’t realized that the ordinary little things that happened, the ones that took place between the big events while waiting for something more…

— Helen Smith

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé