Variations Quotes

162 quotes by 145 authors

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
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
...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
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… — Sylvia Plath
Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasnâ€™t it bothered you, this part… — Glen Duncan
How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from… — Timothy Zahn
It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire… — Rachel Cohn
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history… — Isaac Asimov
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green… — Conrad Aiken
Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a… — Maggie Stiefvater
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. — Sylvia Plath
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his… — Nikos Kazantzakis
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining oneâ€™s balance in spite of them. Even with… — Carl von Clausewitz
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal… — Miyamoto Musashi
VariaciÃ³n / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course,… — Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor… — Charles Darwin

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