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Quotes About Adaptation

Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.
~ Glenn Tipton
I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.
~ Joan Allen
It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
~ Fay Wray
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
~ Alice Munro
You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.
~ Dale Steyn
I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.
~ Roy Wood
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
~ Bryan Robson
I suppose I learned organization from Altman.
~ Shelley Duvall
I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
~ Oscar Pistorius
I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.
~ Jay McInerney
I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
~ Marianne Faithfull
I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.
~ Martin Freeman
Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.
~ Joseph Benavidez
I never learned all the things you're not supposed to do; I just do what makes the most sense.
~ David Carson
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.
~ David Edwards
Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn.
~ Tionne Watkins
The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
~ Daniel Yergin
When I went to WCW, I was never supposed to go in there as Terra Ryzing.
~ Triple H
We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.
~ Kenya Barris
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
~ David R. Brower
I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.
~ Anne Parillaud
A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
~ Naomi Klein