Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Cleeves

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

Fred Brown

People from there can adapt to city life, and people here who have never been in the southern part of the country will have a chance to get beyond the preconceptions they've been given,

Bill Ferris

Any music can be learned from and adapted from other artists, and whites have been widely influenced by black music, from Pat Boone singing Fats Domino to Elvis Presley singing 'Hound Dog', a Big Momma Thornton song he heard on the radio.

William Cunningham

The stronger the vote, the more it says that New Yorkers endorse the mayor's way of managing the city and its problems, ... And if the public says, 'we want his way to continue,' other elected officials may think, 'maybe we have to adapt ourselves to the mayor's way, too.'

Amanda Gunter

The suites could either agree to keep (their policy) with the university's policy for the weeknights or they could adapt their own policy. It is up to the residents of the suite to reach a decision on that.

Mike Waldo

E.J. and Dustin have both come in and worked and adapted to the other players.

Albert Luque

First it was injury that made it more difficult for me to adapt to the Premier League. Then when I was well and playing, the new coach took over and he is not giving me much playing time.

B. R. Hayden

The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.

Clarence Day

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways

Brian Spears

I want a competitive edge for my company, and, as a member of the community, I want to do the right thing. Energy efficiency has become more important in our lives.

Ken Williams

Right now, we're still in the grind of it. You've got to keep that edge to you. OK, yeah, (it's) a happy, joyful occasion,

Mark Zandi

This is going to keep energy markets on a razor's edge for the rest of the year,

Stefan Hell

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Bible Bible

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Roger Simon

So far the hunters have taken 3,000 to 4,000 seals. That's not ridiculously slow, but it's not fast either. It's the lower edge of the norm.

Julian Bond

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them; they don't see me; we don't interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.

Dean Eberling

Morgan Stanley has a leg up because they've been there and done that. The Lombard acquisition was really a perfect edge for them in that it gave them a nice window into the world of online trading.

Ken Hitchcock

Goats is a very emotional player who plays on the edge, and sometimes that edge tilts.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

Sean Landeta

Up to that point, our punt team had done very well. Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.