Adapted Quotes

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

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

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.