Quotes About Adaptation

Plotting is an organic, and wildly inefficient process of trial and error.

You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegitimate sons, and die.

So in The Thin Red Line 1st/Sgt Warden became 1st/Sgt Welsh, Pvt Prewitt became Pvt Witt, Mess/Sgt Stark became Mess/Sgt Storm. While remaining the same people as before. In Whistle Welsh becomes Mart Winch, Witt becomes Bobby Prell, Storm becomes John Strange.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

Non servirò ciò in cui non credo più, si chiami questo la casa, la patria o la Chiesa: e tenterò di esprimere me stesso in un qualunque modo di vita o di arte quanto più potrò liberamente e integralmente, adoperando per difendermi le sole armi che mi concedo di usare: il silenzio, l'esilio e l'astuzia.

God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.

The trees do not resent autumn nor does any exemplary thing in nature resent its limitations.

We need to keep domesticating religion. It's such an unpredictable beast.

Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances

What we did in the last month, last year, even in childhood, shouldn't deny us the chance of reinvention

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.

Time had removed him and it would not allow him to go back.

I love the early hours of the day. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.

There are some foods some people just don't like. I just don't like movies. People tell me, don't you care what they've done to your book? I tell them, they haven't done anything to my book. It's right there on the shelf.

conservative because "he accepted the need of dealing with things as they were, not as he would have wished them to be."2

The Civil War started out as one kind of conflict and ended as something quite different.

She learned as she led, and led as she learned.

He felt like a radio tuning in to a new channel, one that was beginning to fuzz into range, slowly coming in clear, proper, the way his Hettie had always wanted him to be. The new feeling humbled him.

didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

They were all trying hard to be American, you know, not knowing what to keep and what to leave behind. But you know what happens when you do that. If you throw water on the floor it will always find a hole, believe me.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

Only that which can change can continue.

Only that which can change can continue: this is the principle by which infinite players live.