Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kraft

We now have 32 owners, and everyone has their own agenda. We have to be careful that we keep a sense of tradition balanced with ... adaptation to the times we're in.

Thomas Kilroy

I think a good adaptation should send you back to the original.

Robert Gary

It has been a very exciting first year really working with the women's program. I have been impressed with their competitiveness and their adaptation to the training. They are rounding into shape just as we enter the championship season and I am excited to watch the program make a huge jump like the men's team did my first couple years coaching.

Dana Brunetti

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

Salman Rushdie

For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start.

Ronaldinho Ronaldinho

He would have to go through an adaptation period. We all have to when we come to Europe but he will get over it quickly and show his great ability,

Tim Flannery

We?re headed for 5.4 degrees over the next 100 years. Adaptation will be less likely.

Neil Marshall

I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.

Ellen Key

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

Laura Campbell

Relieved is a strange thing to say - you really don't feel that. It kind of brings everything back. It's a different kind of grieving.

M. Wolfe

Pastor's School brings more than a million dollars in tourist money to Northwest Indiana.

John Rogers

Pay By Touch is changing the way the world transacts. We are truly honored to showcase our innovative payment service at The Tech, because it brings this significant payment shift into perspective. More consumers will have an opportunity to experience a revolutionary technology that we expect will become common practice for everyone within the next few years.

Matt Kane

Paul has been a nice surprise. He grew up playing goalie and brings a lot of experience.

Daniel Brown

Our official track brings it to the central part (of Florida), but nobody in the east coast of Florida is out of the woods yet. It's too early still.

Frank Anzures

Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops.

Rani Mukerji

People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

Ken Hall

People love the soup kitchen because it brings everyone out to share a meal and good conversation while donating to a worthy cause. And of course, as the soup pot is emptied, the donation pot grows.

Joe Fields

Steve brings great leadership skills. He leads by example. He's not really an outspoken guy but you see him at practice and he takes the lead.

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Randy Carlyle

Our relationship goes back a long way. Our kids played minor hockey together in Winnipeg. There are roots there.

Jim Williams

Our little dog, he goes into this unbelievable shaking for about 10 or 15 minutes. And we have no idea when they'll be blasting, so all we can do is wait for it.

Inaki Saez

Our mistake was in not scoring. But not just tonight, throughout the whole tournament, ... Greece goes through simply because it scored more goals.

Otis Smith

Steve is still a good player in this league. Whether he goes from good to great is going to be on Steve.

Richard White

Spend your money and it all goes to here as opposed to going out for dinner.

Mark Attanasio

Our payroll can go higher, but we need to be mindful that it goes higher in the right way, at the right time and for the right players. We're not going to spend money for money's sake.

Sam Cassell

Our season goes up and down and we are going to find a way to get it back. We don't have a monkey on our back. We have a gorilla.

Jessica Laing

Our team is amazing. I love them all to death. Whoever goes out there, they always give 110 percent. It's just awesome.

Gary Hennip

Overall I'm pleased with the way we're playing. We have a lot of new young players. We'll get better as the season goes on.

P.K. Shaw

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Barry Lopez

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

C. S. Lewis

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.

Antoni Tapies

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Anthony Storr

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

Bill Vaughan

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Bill Hicks

You are the imagination of yourself.

Bertrand Russell

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

Daniel Stewart

Regardless of what party you are, you have to learn how to play in the same sandbox because nothing will kill redevelopment quicker than combative local politics,

Ed Fleischman

People learn something and take it away so they can do it again. It is very gratifying.

Sheila Dikshit

People have to learn to pay for what they use,

Mark Mitchell

Survivors of London and the survivors of 9/11 and I just pray that people would be safe and learn to know the Lord.

Anna Kournikova

Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus,

Raymond Mason

Sure it's frustrating when you lose, but you can't use being young as an excuse. When you're learning, there's always something new to unfold and you find the right way to do your job. We know we can still be better this season.

Michelle Young

Some of our players will only have been with us a day, so it should be a real learning experience,

H. Hart

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

Lindsay Davenport

Someone said she served at 125, 126 (miles per hour) here. So I have to learn some more about her.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Joe Jurevicius

I think he was awesome. He loses his starting running back and he's able to overcome that with no problem.

Ken Dautrich

She loses some legitimacy. She lost an opportunity to make a real statement.

Joan Rivers

When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.

Radhanath Swami

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.

e. e. cummings

Nobody loses all the time.

Darren Johnson

Do not lose hope in what the universe has placed you here to do.

Chuck Palahniuk

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

Amy Tan

I did not lose myself all at once.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Floyd Skloot

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Alan Furst

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Dave Greenberg

We're competitive now. We struggle to score. That's why every possession is so valuable to us.

John C. Calhoun

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Dan Davis

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

Albert Camus

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

David Platt

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

David Platt

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Source Unknown

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

Bill Vaughan

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Jena Malone

If they made 'Pride & Prejudice 2,' Lydia would become more of a tragic figure,

Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

Deepak Chopra

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Abdu'l Baha

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Francis J. Grimke

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Aleister Crowley

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Tim Franklin

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Mike Tice

I think the sooner the better for all involved.

J. Horton

I think there is a sense that, sooner or later, this will happen.

Debbie Saslow

I think it's way too soon to talk about a cure.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Alex Newell

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Leah Gingrich

I was in there as soon as they would let me in.

Jason Venable

Stephen Munoz really stepped up when Thomas went out.

Dave Huppert

Someone is going to have to step up for us.

John Connelly

Our forwards were very disappointing. They have to step up to the mark.

Dan Furmansky

Overall, it's a step in the right direction.

David Cameron

We'll be able to comply. But now we're working to take it a step further.

Anthony Gonzalez

I was just tired. When he took me down I said, ?this kid's tough.' So I stepped it up.

Doug McCrary

I think we can play better. We're winning, and we've got to go one step at a time." ()

Charlie Bell

I think this woke us up. As a team, we stepped it up a bit.

Scott Roembke

I think we're just going to take it one step at a time just like we've been doing all week.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.