Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam and Eve were born in a garden, and gardens are still where people go to renew themselves by meeting creation.

Philip Pullman

Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Tom Browning

A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.

Christopher Jackson

So we have to try to adapt to and get in front of the situation.

Mickey Matthews

During the coin flip, one of the coaches up in the press box said 'Coach, Adam can't go the first series,' and I said 'Why not?' ... He said 'He got run over by the Duke Dog on a motorcycle.'

Martina Hingis

Definitely anticipation has always been a very big part of my game -- to know and read my opponent -- but it's not easy. Even if I play a Grand Slam, I play girls I don't know, so I have to adapt very quickly.

The technology has been around for six or seven years, but the idea of people adapting to it has really taken hold in the last year.

The suites could either agree to keep (their policy) with the university's policy for the weeknights or they could adapt their own policy. It is up to the residents of the suite to reach a decision on that.

Jorge Rodriguez

The Suffrage Law would need to be adapted to the 1999 Constitution to provide for some defense of minority's representation.

The space that we build is going to need to be flexible and adaptable so that we don't build it and have to use it for the exact purpose for the next 45 years because we can't change it. We want flexibility.

The thing that Notre Dame does well is it confuses teams with the attack it runs. They move a lot of hitters around. We have to adapt to that.

Harmony Korine

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

Amir Khan

I've adapted my footwork and my punches are a lot harder now. My first fight was like my amateur fights. I went in there with fast feet and fast hands but now I've slowed it down so I'm adapting to it and getting more power into my shots.

Technological innovation always precedes demand. It's not necessarily what the market wants or is willing to adapt to,

Ernie Els

It would be a huge confidence booster to win here. I wish I'd played like this last week. I would have given (Beijing winner) Adam Scott a bit of a go.

Jamie Langenbrunner

It was a little tighter than I thought it would and what you're used to, but I think we adapted pretty well and played with some discipline.

The steak and chicken fell out of the diet. It's like going to the grocery store and (seeing) there are only a few yucky things in the store. You adapt by using what's there.

The stronger the vote, the more it says that New Yorkers endorse the mayor's way of managing the city and its problems, ... And if the public says, 'we want his way to continue,' other elected officials may think, 'maybe we have to adapt ourselves to the mayor's way, too.'

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James Frain

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

As Indian companies strive to be globally competitive, they have realized the importance of investing in information technology and networking to adapt quickly to rapidly shifting market transitions,

That part is fun, the technical part. It's fun trying to master the technique. But breathing hard, I don't know. It's not that fun for me. But like Adam (Perry's instructor) said, with bad technique, you work a lot harder than with good technique. You have to be efficient.

That's what winning teams do. If someone makes a boot, someone has to pick him up. And in that case, Adam picked himself up. That was huge.

That ticket holders were refused entry for two days continuously reflects the (Disneyland) management is lack of the capability to adapt to changing situation. The management is disappointing.

That's how you get to learn pitchers, and he is adapting to that very well. Brett is very astute at what he's doing. He's taking it seriously and getting a good read.

We had to change a lot of things with her. Once she learned and adapted to our system, it was like opening up and saying 'here you go.

Those two types of pitchers complement each other well. Anytime you give up four hits with aluminum bats in any game is a pretty good pitching performance. Adam and Matt were outstanding today.

Dave Thomas

This was a big win for us because we played without Adam Reed.

This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until that happens this will not be a pandemic strain.

Walter Lang

This unwillingness to admit guilt is traced back to the Garden of Eden. Adam blamed Eve and she blamed the serpent. It is an ingrained trait because of sin.

What is most frustrating about U.S. protectionism is that it protects no one, ... Rather than encouraging engagement, it allows an inefficient U.S. lumber industry to turn its back on a rapidly changing global marketplace. Protectionism removes the impetus for industry to invest, improve, adapt and be globally competitive.

Todd Herzog

We got a pretty good kid out of Stevie, and a pretty good kid out of Ryan, and Adam has two state medals under his belt already.