Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.
If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There’s always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.
The first play I wrote was called ‘Twenty-five.’ It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author’s political views.
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
Bombay feels like a second home now. I have adapted to the lifestyle of the city.
Volvo has one weakness, and that is in the interior design. They have not adapted to the Chinese people’s perception of luxury when it comes to the interior design, and this has to be addressed.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of ‘higher, stronger, faster.’
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. ‘The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War’ is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos’s visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, ‘The Magic Monkey’ – it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.
I’d actually love to play Sonny in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ now that it’s being adapted for Broadway. People don’t talk about that movie that much, but it’s really a beautiful gay love story.
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic – nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
The old saying ‘If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it – Does it still make a sound?’ can be adapted to: ‘If someone does something interesting on the Internet and nobody is around to talk about it – Did it still make an impact?’
Sure, there were hopes that Constellation’s systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn’t work in 1970, and it wasn’t going to work in 2020.
I have adapted and feel comfortable in the middle, but I am a world and European champion at right back.
Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I’m most proud of is having totally evolved. I came here not knowing how to speak English, but I went to school and learned; I adapted to this new culture.
No one has a name in ‘The Road.’ Like Cormac McCarthy’s novel from which it’s adapted, ‘The Road’ features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
‘Shetland’ is adapted from the novel ‘Red Bones.’ The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.
As a kid, I remember my mother always experimenting with bizarre combinations of food such as gulab jamun and pickle! Surprisingly, many years down the line, I have adapted the same.
Sometimes I get to see a movie that’s adapted from a book that I haven’t heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.’
The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn’t necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
I have adapted well in Liverpool.
I’m very opinionated about movie musicals when they’re adapted from live shows. You’ll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone’s eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.
WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called ‘A Dark Adapted Eye,’ and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people’s expectations, fashions or opinions. She’s probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic.
The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world’s vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.
Look at Kylie. She’s changed and adapted but still kept her fans. That’s what I want to do.
When I first watched ‘Coraline,’ I thought, ‘If that ever got adapted…’ If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it’s a kind of whole new universe.
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
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