Quotes About Adaptation

I go from chords to cords, amped to amps.

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

I'm an ivy twined so long against a tower of strange design that I cannot now assume any other shape.

Lying had become her clothing—without it she'd freeze.

He would survive working with Helen Watt—even as the thought occurred to him, he recognized it as a stroke of genius—by pretending she was a different sort of person. He would act as though she were a woman with a sense of humor.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259

I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon.

Regardless of what our Creator intended us to be, what we have become is what we are.

CHANGE ISN'T EASY, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing how you think. Changing how you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

The famous British actress Beatrice Lillie was once onstage in Ontario, Canada, performing in Noël Coward's This Year of Grace, the entire cast lined up to one side of her. She was singing "Britannia Rules the Waves," when she mistakenly began to sing the second verse twice, before moving to the third. She realized what she was doing but had to carry forward with it. The cast froze in place instead of moving to center stage—which

We are what we are, he thought, and maybe the only time we can change what we are is when life throws us such a surprise that it's like hitting a plate-glass window with a baseball bat, shattering the grip of the past.

Don't be expectin' milk and honey, and maybe then you'll get yourself some.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

Ed, once called Aladdin, is the first artificial intelligence I've ever known. Maybe if Harry can kill Hiskott and if then I live long enough to see the world become the total science-fiction theme park it seems to be headed toward, I'll probably know dozens of them one day. Let me tell you, if they're all as nice as Ed has turned out to be, that's okay with me.

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

Canis latrans

improvisator.

Carson heard that expression more often these days—It is what it is—and it nettled him every time someone spoke it.

until it isn't.

Sometimes a girl who doesn't like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one if she's got any common sense at all.

And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.