Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dana Brunetti

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

Thomas Kilroy

I think a good adaptation should send you back to the original.

Robert Gary

It has been a very exciting first year really working with the women's program. I have been impressed with their competitiveness and their adaptation to the training. They are rounding into shape just as we enter the championship season and I am excited to watch the program make a huge jump like the men's team did my first couple years coaching.

Kelly Ward

I'm not sure how many people were aware that 'Othello' was black, so when she did that play, she opened everyone's eyes, ... Her adaptation of that play was very fresh when she did it. It was something new that people had never seen before, which was typical of her personality.

Daniel Funk

This helps fill a big gap that has existed in evolutionary studies. We have known for some time that when species invade a new environment or ecological niche, a common result is the formation of a great diversity of new species. However, we haven't really understood how or whether the process of adaptation generally drives this pattern of species diversification.

John Logan

Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.

Joel Kinnaman

A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.

Masayoshi Son

They don't change that much. And that means their growth or adaptation to the new generation is getting somewhat lagged behind the new trend.

Ann Rice

This musical is the fulfillment of my deepest dreams. Elton's music and Bernie's lyrics have captured the pain and the passion of the characters perfectly, and the entire adaptation has re-created the very essence of the books.

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Scott Skiles

I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night.

Christine Callies

This is only under the assumption that the full tax rate cuts go into effect.

Bob Shimp

It's possible that we could work something out regarding 2007. But our assumption was that she would sell the conference and it would move.

Ken Holland

That's the assumption we're operating under. We're certainly going to look at all of our options, but we're under the assumption Pavel will not play with us this season.

Charles Sims

I want them to live on the assumption that they won't play another game,

Elizabeth McCracken

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.

Tim Vonville

They are making the assumption that you are still recorded as a dependent on your parents' tax return, and therefore they have some right to send a letter home.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Marshal Cohen

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

Jess Walter

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Denny Green

I think the criticism should be on me. I'm the one who made the judgment that the line needed to be revamped.

Gero Neugebauer

I think that there has been criticism directed at Schroeder from inside the party. Schroeder is doing some downgrading of the price of a grand coalition, but that doesn't mean he is completely out of the race for chancellor.

Tom DeLay

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

Oscar Wilde

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

Bob Castellini

There is no criticism of Dan. I just needed my own person.

Jeb Bush

I thought the vice president overcompensated after the criticism he got from the first debate. He was too calm.

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Jonah Hill

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

Jake Kasdan

In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.

Michael Spiller

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

Jackie Cooper

I had directed a little in summer theater, and I liked it, and I started getting interested in directing, in live television.

David Altshuler

Being directed down that pathway is very helpful.

Van Baker

I fully expect to see more directed at the living room cabinet.

CJ Adams

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'

Roy Cooper

the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountability and its end run around the legislative process.

Pat Hanlon

I wouldn't say disappointing. I think surprising is the right word. And that includes sales to the general public, not just the waiting list members.

Andrew Miller

It can't be right that ministers be given such wide and general powers.

Roland Hemond

There are so many demands, on general managers especially. Doug listens well to the scouts and player-development people. People are loyal to him because he's loyal to them.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

George Savile

It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Suki Waterhouse

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

Daniel Bruhl

Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Becky Lourey

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

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.

Pope John Paul II

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.