Modern Adaptations Quotes

#1. Stumblingblocks? If you are facing one right now, be grateful for two reasons. It landed in front of you not on top of you. And now you have something to climb on top of so that you can see farther than you ever could before. Live large my friends, live deliberately.

Jim Killon

#2. I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

Ginger Rogers

#3. My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

Alan Moore

#4. The world's most difficult affairs
begin in easiness.
The world's greatest affairs
always begin in the small.

Lao-Tzu

#5. We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

John Bolton

#6. Hildy has resigned herself to this, that life is a series of sudden disappearences, leavetakings without the proper good-byes. Someday she too might vanish. Some days she looks forward to learning this trick.

Kelly Link

#7. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Mary Kay Blakely

#8. Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

#9. I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

Chino Moreno

#10. And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

Aldous Huxley

#11. I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

Mindy Kaling

#12. No man is hurt but by himself ... Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.

Diogenes

#13. I love you," he whispered, kissing her.

She smiled. "I love you, too."

He was suddenly aware of Kaden lying right there. He looked at his friend.

Kaden smiled. "Still not doing you.

Tymber Dalton

#14. If everybody were compelled to have the proper kind of education, we'd have a better world. If we force people to do good, they will be free to be happy.

Ayn Rand

#15. She ain't no whore," the old man had grumbled. "She's a lady. And the lady likes leather.

Seth Skorkowsky

#16. When I grow up next year my life will be easy. Vanity

Caroline Gerardo