Quotes About Adaptation

I used to cough to cover a fart, now I fart to cover a cough.

Half of us are going to come out of this isolation as amazing cooks and the other half as drunkards.

I used to spin the toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I'm cracking a safe.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Scorpios are capable, in a truly Plutonian fashion, of completely and suddenly changing their life styles...

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

Broken tools can be replaced. You can't.

The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way and it surely has not, she adjusted her sails.

In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past.

All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything!

I've been through so much. I just live each day, and whatever happens, happens. I've lived a very good life. My life has definitely changed, but the attitude is still the same.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

In order to evolve and become what nature and God intended us to be, we must attune ourselves with this process of constant change.

dealing with the cycles of life*

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

All is as it should be. Learn, let go, move on