Variation Quotes · Page 2

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

— Tim Berners-Lee

They've offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.

— Sherilyn Fenn

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

— Peter Eisenman

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

— Jim Jarmusch

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

— Neil Jordan

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

— Sylvia Plath

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

— John Steinbeck

You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit…

— Maurice Samuel

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and…

— Maurice Druon

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s.…

— Tim Meadows

Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can…

— Claude Debussy

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes…

— Michael E. Mann

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or…

— Tom Peters

Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot…

— James K. Galbraith

In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is…

— Joseph Fourier

“I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas…

— Percy Foreman

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus…

— Alison Gopnik

Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In…

— Catherine Wilson

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are…

— Timothy Keller

Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major…

— Guillermo Gonzalez

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable…

— Charles Darwin

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its…

— Brad Leithauser

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

— Edmar Mednis

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

— Carolyn Hax

I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.

— Christopher Krovatin

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

— David Ricardo

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon...

— John A. Keel

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

— Jami Attenberg

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it,…

— James Taylor

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

— Johannes Brahms

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

— Alexander Kotov

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

— Rafael Nadal

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

— Robin Wright

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— John Szarkowski

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

— Jack Horner

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

— Neal A. Maxwell