Quotes About Adaptation

I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

The past is solid, the future is liquid.

At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.

If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

The faster we go, the slower we need to be.

Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

Kamila Shamsie, Kartography