Quotes About Adaptation

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past.

I'm proud that I don't make crazy jokes anymore.

I used to do much shorter jokes a lot more.

I may become like an Indian thatha but I won't stop making jokes.

Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

The original recipe calls for "periwinkles," the snail-like mollusk. Taking poetic and culinary license, I chose to reinterpret this ingredient as the flower.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

Fortunately, also, that very night the wolfish English summer discarded its lamb-skins.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.

Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other.

Has any historian sought to question why the wagonmaster of America's westward-bound pioneers 'circled' the wagons instead of 'squaring' or 'triangulating' them for a better defense strategy in fighting-off Indian raids on the plains:

My friend Josephus dons heavy wool sox prior to 'bootin-up' with his PC!