Top 370 Adapted Quotes & Sayings

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

I've never adapted a book I didn't love.

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

I have adapted well in Liverpool.

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

A lot of my favorite books have been adapted horribly.

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work - ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds - things like that.

I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction world, including games that are adapted from books (or vice versa: books that are adapted from games). It's wonderful to have the opportunity to play and see your favorite characters on the screen, but the opportunity to read a book does not become less attractive.

It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but rather that He inaugurated a religious movement adapted, or to be adapted, to different times and different places.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

I have adapted and feel comfortable in the middle, but I am a world and European champion at right back.

Neymar is a phenomenon. He adapted to European football very quickly.

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.

Bombay feels like a second home now. I have adapted to the lifestyle of the city.

I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me.

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted.

Look at Kylie. She's changed and adapted but still kept her fans. That's what I want to do.

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

'The Stand' was great. Adapted by Stephen King from his massive book.

I was born a trequartista, and have adapted myself to playing in other roles.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.

I think I adapted well for MMA.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.