Quotes About Adaptation

I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd never be able to hear again.

I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again.

The South was a scary new world. The first time I saw a possum in my driveway, I shook a bony fist at the sky and cursed this godforsaken rustic hellhole. My ancestors spent centuries in the hills of County Kerry, waist-deep in sheep shit, getting shot at by English soldiers, and my grandparents crossed the ocean in coffin ships to come to America, just so I could get possum rabies?

Sometimes I could feel the glaciers shifting inside me, and I hoped they were melting, but they were just making themselves comfortable.

always loved this sentence in Our Bodies, Ourselves, the Eighties edition I had in college: "The previous edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves included a brief section on astrological birth control, which just doesn't work." So much going on in that sentence, dispatched with no drama. Maybe a shade of irony, but no hand-wringing—just a change of mind announced as efficiently and discreetly and decisively as possible.

Rod exemplifies the attitude that Losing It is no big deal. He saw that fate coming, and he was already planning to get over it.

Shutting yourself in the wardrobe until the window cleaner has finished and left.

I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon." "Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. My advice to you, sir, is to eat what you can, spit out what you cain't.

For all that, we have to realize that many revived folk songs today, in their "second existence", are probably enjoying a more vigorous life than they did in their first, restricted time, even if they are bent to different purposes.'9 Folk music had been set free to soar like the kestrel. Two years after this was printed, Lloyd was playing 'Deep Throat' consultant to Fairport Convention's revamping of folk on Liege and Lief.

Breaking out beyond London's green belt was, and remains, like crossing the border into another country altogether.

You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses)

that she looked upon a future career as a stage shot, and she went to her first performance with the assurance of one who had been doing it always.

and poison gas-a far cry from the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians.

It's best never to think that the worst of today will be the framework of tomorrow.

will become whatever I believe a person wants me to be in order to be liked. With

Chameleons usually don't draw much of a crowd or get many ovations. By

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

If I could distill this into a formula for weathering disasters, it would be this: prepare, pay attention, then act, or react, as the situation demands.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens ; and to modify his nature accordingly.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.