Quotes About Adaptation

When the music changes, so does the dance

He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.

Every new development that arises is like the shake you give to a kaleidoscope—the thing changes entirely in aspect.

It's no use resenting a thing that you've no power to stop.

The new world was the same as the old. The houses were different, the streets were called Closes, the clothes were different, the voices were different, but the human beings were the same as they always had been. And though using slightly different phraseology, the subjects of conversation were the same.

It's no good going back over the past. It's the future one has to live for.

The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television, cinema organs and jet planes, so I had to take a chance of finding him at home.

One could write a play about such an idea." "It has been done," said Poirot. "But console yourself, Hastings," he added kindly. "Because a theme has been used once, there is no reason why it should not be used again. Compose your drama.

Aprendí, aunque supongo que ya lo sabía, que nunca se debe intentar volver atrás, que la esencia de la vida es seguir hacia delante.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Well, well. I know all we medicos hand these things out freely nowadays. Nobody tells young women who can't sleep to count sheep, or get up and eat a biscuit, or write a couple of letters and then go back to bed. Instant remedies, that's what people demand nowadays. Sometimes I think it's a pity we give them to them. You've got to learn to put up with things in life. All very well to stuff a comforter into a baby's mouth to stop it crying. Can't go on doing that all a person's life.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself.

My boy, I know what I'm talking about. Mind you, I'm not saying marriage doesn't come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can't call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It's all discipline." Luke

You must be more careful Mademoiselle. He is out of date you comprehend. He just returned from those great clear open spaces, etc., and he has yet to learn the language of nowadays.

but you see we've got to lead a queer life together, you and I. It's not going to be the life that you've led and it's not going to be the life that I've led either.

move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.

Kad bi svinje poletele, sasvim je neverovatno da bi zbog toga postale ptice.

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

Lady Veronica was not an unknown hazard. She was a charming woman [..] and very delightful when she was, as they put it herself - but unfortunately at unpredictable intervals, she was not herself. Her husband, Major Carlton-Sandways coped fairly well.

If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

an expert fisherman knows exactly what flies to offer to what fish.