Quotes About Adaptation

He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three.

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as  Persuasion, but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that. Besides, so I shall be.

Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, daß die Tüchtigen ständig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verändern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben.

Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

which no other failed applicant had even thought of trying to do, because most people don't regard seeing as a skill you can get better at. And when it came to

the tensions between settled peoples and transients everywhere...

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

Sometimes thinking outside of the box can be the difference between life and death.

The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.

I'm just saying that money is made in so many more interesting ways now.

This is what we Mexicans do:we take what exists and we make it our own.

We are becoming like the mound of earth that rises from the waters of the Moonshell. All around us the white men swirl, taking more and more of the small mound of earth on which we live." Shots

May all of us have the courage to open ourselves to the time that we live in, to let it shape us as we, in turn, shape it. May we perceive what is being asked of us. May we awaken here, on this sharp edge of uncertainty.

We're the only species that invents all of this stuff to make our lives easier-like a car so that we don't need to walk-then invents something else to take the place of it, like running on a treadmill.

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

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

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.