Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tonko

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.'

Martin Amis

Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed.

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.

Ronaldinho Ronaldinho

He would have to go through an adaptation period. We all have to when we come to Europe but he will get over it quickly and show his great ability,

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.

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.

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.

Isabella Bird

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

Orlando Bloom

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

Greg Walker

I was here when the Bears won, I know how big they were. Every player had his own restaurant.

Tim Flannery

Polar bears are going to go with the ice cap. They're not going to actually last that long.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits that strict justice.

Brian Griese

I don't think any player worth his salt is content to be a backup, especially someone who has been a starter before. So I'm not going to resign myself to anything. I'm going to try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

John Bollinger

What worries me is that we haven't really seen a sign of strength, a point where the bears are overpowered by the bulls and throw in the towel, ... That would indicate a dramatic shift -- essentially the breaking of the camel's back.

Joe Clark

I think it is probably just a matter of there being more bears and more people in bear range than ever before.

Spencer Waller

The purpose is so that important cases brought by the government can get definitive resolution quickly and be sped to the top of the ladder. This is the most important case that the government has brought in a generation, so I think it bears the strongest chance.

Brian Fuentes

That was unfortunate for Zach. He was a guy that had some issues earlier and was starting to come back, and it stinks that his season's over.

Krishna Sitaula

We were successful in foiling the king's plans to hold municipal elections earlier this month. Now our focus will be to come up with plans to force the king to give up power he grabbed.

Pam Borton

I worried more about that earlier in the season. I can't jump to conclusions after one game.

Tim Connolly

We just can't sit back and rely on the power play. We have to be better 5-on-5 and we have to be more disciplined earlier in the game.

Todd Helton

You can get back in there, get to hitting, get to go home earlier and all that stuff,

Peter Dunne

Most of the Q1 openings were earlier than planned and have been performing better than anticipated in the short time they have been opened.

Chris Murray

We had expected Rough to come up earlier but since it won't resume before May 1, we have seen withdrawals from storage.

Richard Holbrooke

We are where we were earlier in the day, we're where we were yesterday,

George Thomas

The quarter is progressing essentially in line with what we had anticipated earlier and therefore we are reiterating the guidance originally provided in January.

Marta

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Larry Graham

They can come in and post their name on a bulletin board. Then I can match them up with the leagues that are looking for people.

Rick Peterson

To me, that was worth the whole trip. I think he understands that young pitchers who settle into the big leagues quickly settle in not because they're fastball-curveball (pitchers) but because they're fastball-changeup.

Dusty Baker

A lot of these things you shouldn't have to stress at the big-league level. That's what big leagues mean.

Dennis Howard

They're in the big leagues now. And they're paying big league money for this chance.

Joel Guzman

If I hit, I'll be in the Major Leagues and that's where I want to be.

Neil Strother

While they are doing well, the process to getting with the big leagues is quite a leap.

David Ortiz

At one point, he got called up to the big leagues

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Charles Palliser

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Christian Gross

There is a JavaScript that has a lot of these things solved. Nobody's released it.

Jack Sheehan

He was immediately released to his place of employment.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Sydney Wayser

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Brian Goldfarb

Every version of Visual Studio that we've released has been tied to a specific version of the framework.

Cesar Romero

You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.

Derek Bailey

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Ciaran Hinds

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Michael Schenker

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

Leslie Caron

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Carol Moseley Braun

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Ian Stewart

For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.

Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Bruce Kovner

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

George H. W. Bush

Unlike that other convention, what you are witnessing is real.

Homer Simpson

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

Tina Brown

Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.

Richard Perks

They'll have to come up with something after deliberating for two years, but it's unlikely to be much.

David Rose

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

Elaine Paige

I should think it is unlikely but you never know - never say never.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Patrick Marber

Everything is a version of something else.