Adaptiveness Quotes

#1. Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

Robert E. Ornstein

#2. It's very strange to be completely naked in public," said Jacob. "It isn't something Americans ordinarily do."
"I can't say it's very English, either," replied Henry.
"It's a Scottish thing, though, isn't it? With all the kilts and all that.

Caleb Crain

#3. With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

David Schwimmer

#4. An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Richard Meier

#5. I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.

Quentin Tarantino

#6. One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#7. No one else seems as real as he does.

Gabrielle Zevin

#8. Dominic shook his head. "Not money but we do have to work off our debt to him. My brothers, bar Damien, have certain jobs they do for Marco. My job is fighting.

L.A. Casey

#9. I think there's a lot you can learn from everybody; everybody has a story and a strength within them.

Crystal Renn

#10. I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

John Malkovich

#11. There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

#12. Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

Gore Vidal

#13. My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

Rodney Dangerfield

#14. Live every minute as if it's your last, so when you're my age, you have no regrets.

Bella Andre

#15. They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it.

Charlotte Coleman

#16. I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it.

Lisa Jewell