Variety Quotes · Page 19

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

— W. G. Grace

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

— Octavio Paz

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about…

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

— Joseph Addison

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

— Bill Rodgers

If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people…

— Robert F. Engle

I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

— Taron Egerton

The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness,…

— Winifred Holtby

I've always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That's why God gave me two hands. Humans love…

— Billy Crystal

Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman…

— William D. Cohan

I have been acting for more than 25 years and have worked in all the four Southern languages. But it is in…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in…

— Laurence Sterne

There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can…

— PSY

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically…

— Ashley Judd

Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for…

— Richard F. Heck

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape…

— Buzz Aldrin

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;…

— Anonymous

“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was…

— Meghan Daum

So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion…

— Bill Gates

His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library…

— Edward Gibbon

Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn't all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it's about inviting a broader variety of…

— Hank Green

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

— Lisa Kleypas

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not…

— Freeman Dyson

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or…

— Tallulah Bankhead

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

— Kip Winger

I think you could split my fans up just like any other guy's fans. Some of them are cool, and some of…

— CM Punk

Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik,…

— Lata Mangeshkar

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as…

— Joni Mitchell

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

— Paul Samuelson

To me, I don't think a song's complete unless it's got a great variety of different textures.

— Santigold

I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity.

— Roger Allam

It's always better to offer variety to the audience rather than singing just one kind of genre.

— Sonu Kakkar

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

— Kate DiCamillo

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

When I had kids, I had to work out how to keep my stamina up. I learned the power of protein and…

— Darcey Bussell