Quotes About Adaptation

it's a long lane that has no turning.

O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) WEETHEART, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one. But O, in a minute she changed-- O do not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song.

The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

No change, no chance.

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.