Quotes About Adaptation

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

In the age in which we live, the impossible is every day losing ground.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Kid to his Dad as they watch TV: Dad, tell me again how when you were my age you had to walk all the way across the room to change a channel.

Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.

When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine

Smart phones, smart cars, smart televisions... when are they going to start making smart people?

Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.