Famous Quotes & Sayings

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Cassandra Clare

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

Dominic Cooper

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Nick Park

It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.

Peter Jackson

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

Susan Minot

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.

Colin Cooper

I thought we adapted better in the rain, simply because we were more committed.

I think we match up really well with them, especially if we can get our fans into it and use them also. But we definitely match up well with them in a sense that they adapt and we adapt, so it'll be exciting.

I think we're probably more adaptable now than we were in the past. Education is the key to that -- it makes you flexible.

I think Bruno has understood fairly early on what is required for Scottish football. He has adapted well to the pace of the game, which is hectic not just in Scotland but in Britain as a whole. He is decent on the ball, but he knows when to put his foot in and I think we saw that on Saturday. He played well against Motherwell and he can look after himself because he is a tough little cookie. I think people would agree he's done well so far.

Bret Easton Ellis

Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

John Jay

We still have yet to fully adapt to playing without David Lucas. Many times when in doubt it was 'Throw the ball to David and get space.' We don't quite have that.

Brian Doyle

This new adaptation to our present policy just fine-tunes it a little more on what clothing air marshals can wear to blend in.

J. Taylor

Yeah, I made a couple plays out there, but that's what I get paid to do. I do enjoy it. This is a new role that I've kind of adapted to. I can fall in love with it, and I'm having a good time with it.

We're at the mercy of Mother Nature. We have to be adaptable and overcome situations, whatever we get.

We're coming together after playing a tough schedule. Now we are adapting to other scorers.

Brian Helgeland

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.

Bonnie Bassler

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

Sara Shepard

Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.

Gautam Gambhir

I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

We've just got to learn how to adapt from the fast pitch to the slow pitch. That's what you've got to do in the game.

Cary Fowler

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.

Janet Weiss

With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.

Kofi Annan

We need to decide our priorities. And we must adapt our United Nations so that in the future, those priorities are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people's lives. That my friend is what the people expect of us -- let us not disappoint them.

We are excited for the fall. Our players have set high expectations for the next season, and we are looking forward to it. We had the chance in the spring to play against several teams with different types of systems, and we've learned to adapt to the way we need to play to succeed in the fall.

The president of the Philly Fed is saying the Fed has to adapt to changing circumstances, ... With what's going on in New Orleans, I don't think the Fed can raise rates.

Gary Hamel

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

Gail Sheehy

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

Graham Moore

I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.

We knew very little about them, and it helped us because we want to work on adapting during the game. We didn't know what we were getting in to, and we knew that effort had to be the number one thing or we wouldn't come out with a victory.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

Francis Spufford

There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.