Quotes About Adaptation

A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.

We say that a given habit grows on us. Really it grows in us, becomes second nature.

The fox who keeps to one den is the easiest caught by the terriers, and I felt I had nested too long in one place.

Progress demands deviation from the norm.

Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.

Alas, said the mouse, the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into. You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them

When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one's way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn't take them too seriously.

But you get used to the air alright in the end. When you're here for the second or third time you'll hardly notice how oppressive the air is.

By his own account he had no real contact with the local colony of his countrymen and virtually no social intercourse with the Russian families and so resigned himself to becoming an incurable bachelor.

Si los nómades se encontraran sin carne, nadie sabe lo que se les ocurriría hacer; por otra parte, quien sabe lo que se les ocurriría hacer comiendo carne todos los días.

Dann aber kehrte er zu seiner Arbeit zurück, so wie wenn nichts geschehen wäre.« Das ist eine Bemerkung, die uns aus einer unklaren Fülle alter Erzählungen geläufig ist, obwohl sie vielleicht in keiner vorkommt.

The only proper approach is to learn to accept existing conditions.

like all living things, he might one day show surprising new capabilities, no matter how harmless he appeared at the moment.

There are so many different points to 'Wild World,' and it sounds quite different to what people would expect from us.

I would say that 'Breath of the Wild' is a dramatic departure from the conventions of a 'Zelda' game.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

Sometimes in football, like in life, you have to step into the wilderness. That's the way to get better. You have to try new things and be positive.

There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return to or preserve pure wilderness, we recognize that's an illusion, and we proceed under the new knowledge that we live, in fact, in a human-dominated planet.'

I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'