Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tim Flannery

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

Jamie Baker

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.

Salman Rushdie

For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start.

George C. Williams

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

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.

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.

Neil Marshall

I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.

Alexander Hamilton

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Astro Teller

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

Alain Badiou

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Kevin Yoder

When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable.

Dorothy Allison

My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go.

Richard Rogers

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

Alex Beuzelin

Lighter-than-usual trading volumes, due to the Assumption Day holiday in Europe, facilitated the single currency's gains,

Alan Lightman

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Ariel Levy

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

Attorney Nance

We're going to work under the assumption that we're going to trial on both of them.

David Walliams

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

David Heyman

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

David Icke

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

David Hume

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

David Hume

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

David Dreman

I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

David Dunn

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

David Duchovny

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

David Brock

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

David Walliams

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

Denzel Washington

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

Charles Churchill

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

Charles Babbage

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Don Cooper

Let's face it, there was a lot of criticism when he started in New York. I've been saying, if that would have ruined his career, then he's not the guy we thought he was anyway. And we've all seen first-hand that's not the case.

Benjamin Disraeli

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Gary Neville

We've taken a lot of criticism recently, and rightly so - - there are a lot of expectations at this club. Hopefully this is the start of something special for us.

Ricky Gervais

The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, when you're part of a unit that has had as much criticism as the defense has had, I think it's a motivating factor, ... But what I look at it is the way they've worked, and the way they've trained, and the way they've practiced. We're much stronger up front than we were a year ago, and I think that was one of the problems, one of the big problems. We're stronger, we're bigger, we have better depth. I think that is going to make a difference.

Laila Robins

I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

Jacques Chirac

The real blackmail is what Chirac has done. I am very disappointed that Chirac has influenced and directed the meeting.

James Chessen

She is so smart, it's scary. She's very much a theoretician, but it's always directed toward what's practical and possible.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Claire Tomalin

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

W. S. Gilbert

We found historic letters showing that Lord Stanley directed his aid-de-camp to travel to England to purchase the Cup. That was an interesting historical find.

Jackie Cooper

I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Unfortunately because of the variety of outlets for people to speak their minds on the Internet and that kind of thing, it's made the media in general more opinionated and there's more of a 'gotcha mentality' than real reporting.

Rich Lowry

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Robert Toombs

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Ronnie Milsap

When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

Zhang Shiping

Mandarin has to be used as the main language, especially at school.

Don Wright

Main Street is really the thing I remember as a child.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Brian Durocher

Maine is a team that has some talented and strong kids. They play a real solid game.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.