Quotes About Adaptation

there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.

The original house had been replaced by an indoor flower market with an arched iron and glass roof. Eliza Doolittle, as played by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, would have bought her violets there before moving off to display the worst cockney accent this side of Dick Van Dyke.

Perhaps, I thought, the dead god gets folded into the existence of the new god, the way a dormant genetic variation can exist within an organism's DNA—hanging about like an actor's understudy until the right environmental conditions give it expression and—hey presto—suddenly a bacteria is heat resistant, our Chloe gets her big break on Broadway and a sniper for hire gets an unexpected half a meter of cold steel through the chest. Perhaps

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly, sucks to be you, quadruped.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.

More and more rules were added until people tried to standardise spelling in the eighteenth century - by which time the language was already an unruly adolescent of 1300 years, throwing letters all over the place.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

And I twisted it wrong just to make it right Had to leave myself behind

If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.

Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life.

Don't cry over spilled milk

Some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Like a soldier standing long under fire, any change comes as a relief.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing

As I read I experienced what was becoming a familiar sensation: the world was rearranging itself around me while I processed words from a liquid-crystal display.

Trying to make normal conversation . . . I felt like a character actor trying to return to an old role.

Ernest Hemingway based Robert Jordan, the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, partly on Umar Mamsurov.

Video killed the radio stars, and digital killed the old 'inkies'. (Ben Macintyre writing in The Times about the death of the New Musical Express (NME) in print.)

Some creatures have a low survival rate, and so the world produces far too many of them, and as they fight among each other to live they grow more savage, more base, more dull, and the winners, the survivors, are distinctly unappealing little beings.

The word 'camouflage' simply means 'to have a family'.

Love isn't blind… It just involves a lot of looking the other way

We ought to step out of our old, hard casing. We think that we are one kind of people, when in fact we are always creating ourselves. We are not fixed. We are constantly becoming, constantly coming into being.