Quotes About Adaptation

Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode.

The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

Brains are like sponges... If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy.

Making a change requires you to be willing, able, and ready.

Feeling willing is the first step. Recognizing that something should change shows a willingness and openness to doing things differently.

Part of you recognizes you should change something about your actions, but another part is still attached to the old ways, no matter how uncomfortable they are. This is normal. This is part of being human.

If a person seems inflexible, yield, then slip in sideways and get what you want.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

It had taken some time for Jenna to get used to her huge Palace bedroom, having slept in a cupboard

I try to laugh at whatever life brings...

There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so he might breathe.

Compromise - Lowering my standards. So you can meet them.

It was my experience that the printing on anything I picked up, from maps to telephone books, had gotten smaller every year.

Change does come.

to the landslide.

That was his father's way. Things he couldn't change he made the best of. He said there was no point in taking on the world. He'd never win.

The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

This world - the Western world - has failed. We must have a plan B. We're the plan B.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.