Quotes About Adaptation

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

If you want to sound truly English, you must learn to speak the language really badly. It will not be difficult, there are many language schools where they teach you exactly that. (If you are unlucky you may choose one of the old-fashioned ones and be taught English as it should be, and not as it is, spoken.)

Yes," he said, "but we are on the ground here; this is our place; he comes breaking in; he must adapt himself to us; not we to him.

One of them went to get the thing for which he had cried out. When they brought it, Ish was delighted, and now they laughed at him as if he really were a child, good-naturedly. Ish did not mind. He had what he wanted. It was a scarlet flower—a geranium, which had adapted itself to the new life and lived through these years. It was not the flower but the color, Ish realized, that had given him that sudden pang and made him cry out.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.

Because it will not last," Catelyn answered, sadly. "Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. Before that, he had her doing spinds and back flips. "Arya, are you certain you want to persist in this?" She nodded. "Tomorrow we're going to catch cats." "Cats." Ned sighed.

It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy

You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?" "I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?

times may change, but men do not.

The cat who wants his bowl of cream must know when to purr and when to show his claws" - Ser Kyle, the Cat of Misty Moor

That won't do any good, the crow said. I told you, the answer is flying, not crying. How hard can it be? I'm doing it. The crow took to the air and flapped around Bran's hand. "You have wings," Bran pointed out. Maybe you do too. Bran felt along his shoulders, groping for feathers. There are different kinds of wings, the crow said.

She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.

There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.

The day you make them all is the day you stop improving. - Alleras

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story.