I think doing variations on a classical theme is a…

If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them…

— Harold Ramis

Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has…

— Niles Eldredge

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

— John Szarkowski

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

— Richard Holbrooke

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

— Leonid Shamkovich

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like…

— Cee Lo Green

You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all…

— David Maraniss

That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton……

— James Clerk Maxwell

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…

— Charles Darwin

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can…

— Jack Gould

“The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in…

— George Eliot

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet