Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ultimately, industry adaptation is helped by higher crude, insofar as fares will continue moving higher, labor costs lower, and at some point even the most stubborn (airlines) may see the need to decelerate.

Tom Crean

When you've got a team like that that's just trying to get to New York, it's a great league. The old adage that we beat up our own, that's what everyone has to take into account.

Nick Flynn

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Guy Laliberte

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

James E. Faust

To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve.

Katherine Jenkins

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.

Kirk Cameron

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

Claude Julien

We are going to have to do something before we really wear out our top guys with all of the power-plays we're now seeing. If this trend continues and you apply that to an 82-game schedule, that extra unit is really going to come in handy, unless of course the players adapt their game to the new rules and spend less time in the box.

Eduardo Galeano

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

Kage Baker

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

Jerry Rice

I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual. I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

Kevin McHale

Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals... no day is like another.

Bonnie Raitt

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

When I met with (Adam's) father (Wednesday) evening ... the first words out of his father's mouth were, (Adam) was so proud to be working for you guys,' ... Adam really did radiate that.

Stefan Sagmeister

I originally had opened the studio in New York to combine my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I realized, just like with many, many things in my life that I actually love, I adapt to it. And I get, over time, bored by them.

Ashwin Sanghi

I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content.

Bob Dylan

You'll never be greater than yourself.

Tim Flannery

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

George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are multiple challenges, ranging from raising the number of marine protected areas from 0.5 percent of the world's oceans to helping developing countries adapt to the growing impacts of climate change.

We really have seven starters. It just depends on the match-ups, and I thought both Ryan and Philip did a nice job. Really, I thought Adam Pier did a nice job also.

E. B. White

We're adapting a lot of material, but we're also doing a lot of very specific material to the various cultures we're targeting.

We didn't want to score too quick because it would have given (quarterback Adam Sanchez) enough time to maybe go down and score and a 2-point conversion to tie it. So we had some plays to just run the clock down.

Alexander Medvedev

We have proposed thinking about ways to adapt Ukraine's economy to new prices.

We have basically plagiarized the Wal-Mart deal and adapted it for Blair.

We've spent a lot of time on both of them, and we will redouble our efforts on the Adam Dunn front to reach a conclusion one way or another. We've had detailed discussions and they've laid out their thought process in great detail, which we appreciate. We need to try and reach some type of middle ground.

There are still the classic four-part harmony barbershop songs, but it's really evolved into adaptable music for today. When we perform, we do contemporary arrangements of popular songs, some doo-wop, some Sinatra tunes and, yes, some classic barbershop, too.

There are still a lot of narrow fields out there. It's a completely different game when you have to play on a football field and we have to be able to adapt to that. If you want to win, you have to learn to deal with any situation.

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

I would think the adage of going away in May probably won't hold this year.

William Shakespeare

I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.

Michael Koryta

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.