Quotes About Adaptation

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

I was unemployed for a long time, but I couldn't adjust to the hours.

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.

It is interesting to note how often a technological development—such as Gutenberg's—promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede.