Quotes About Adaptation

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

I think in this day and age it's very important.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more, ' but it's only the moment.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, 'Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.'

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Moving makes you feel all alone inside.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.