Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer… — Walter J. Phillips
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation… — Jerry Uelsmann
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness… — Henry Adams
I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to… — Sasha Cohen
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and… — James Fenton
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of… — Dean Koontz
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or… — Jonathan Kozol
My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin. — Rafael Nadal
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was… — Eric Schmidt
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. — Erwin Schrodinger
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page… — James Taylor
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. — Debra Winger
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven… — Albert Einstein
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with… — Michel de Montaigne
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of… — Jean Genet
I am a great believer in variations on the routine. — Kaye Gibbons
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. — John Lennon

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