24 Quotes Tagged: adaptation

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

There isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it.

Custom makes incongruous things congruous.

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

Rather than fight change, a more sensible approach is to learn to live with it. Or to make a living from it.

In a sense, the media is a moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold out to the end of the film as there was in the film itself.

And since a more convincing argument could not be found — aside from a fatal accident or suicide — this way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.