Variety Quotes

932 Variety quotes by 771 unique authors

Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes,… — Gary Jennings
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books… — Alberto Manguel
Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you… — Ian Fleming
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other… — Robert A. Heinlein
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making… — Aldous Huxley
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore… — Laurence Sterne
no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety… — D. H. Lawrence
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn… — Gene Roddenberry
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of… — J D Salinger
Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of… — Walt Disney
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as… — Terry Tempest Williams
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens… — Michael Pollan
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is… — John Twelve Hawks
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with… — H.G. Wells
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by… — Isaac Asimov
Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of… — Cassandra Clare
I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters… — Russell Kirk
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite… — Virginia Woolf
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the… — Milan Kundera
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. — Michel Houellebecq
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. — Bertrand Russell
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a… — Bertrand Russell

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