Quotes About Adaptation

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.