Quotes About Adaptation

La mariposa recordará por siempre que fue gusano

nuestra luna y su miel se llevaron a cabo con una praxis semejante a la de hoy ya que la humanidad ha innovado poco en este punto realmente cardinal

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

All the books she'd read had taught her nothing about what you do when your mother doesn't die but turns into someone you don't know, someone who doesn't take care of you anymore.

Besides, some things just can't make the leap from past to present, and that hat was not a leaper.

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

Creativity Loves Constraints.

If people don't change their minds, there's no hope for the human race.

Men always imagined they were undemanding and easy-going; but it soon turned out that the going was only easy if it went their way.

New ideas are so important. The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Too bad people don't rebuild themselves so easily.

I outlived all the men who raised me. I stayed young while they faded, and died from bullets and disease. Or old age. You forget so much. You forget them. Friends. Family. You put aside what can't be changed. Like death. Until something small and unexpected catches you.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

What happened once, will happen again...but in a different form. To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.

Everything you are learning is preparing you for something else.

The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!

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

Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define.

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

With the help of fanzines and close attention to the text of the game you can actually learn to speak Tsolyanu while wondering why the school still makes you learn French–it's not like you're going to use it.