Quotes of: Adaptation Keyword

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

Andrew Davies

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

E. O. Wilson

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Francis Lawrence

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

George Allen

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

Jim Cole

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

Ben Elton

We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity.

David Blunkett

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

Jose Garces

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

James Lasdun

Harry Hart: [From trailer] If you're prepared to adapt, you can transform.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor, you have to adapt and do so many different things.

Will Chase

The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion

Bernard Kelvin Clive

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

William Hague

Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for the proof that "acquired characters" or, to speak more precisely, parental experience can really be transmitted to...

Mendel's Principles of Heredity

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Breakfast of Champions

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Breakfast of Champions

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

Paul Tonko

The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular...

David Belle

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

Jaromir Jagr

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

Kenneth H. Cooper