Variety Quotes

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

The expression of divinity is in variety.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

There's a wide variety of demographics for fans of T.I. now, that you have to do something to satisfy everyone.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

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

Variety is the condition of harmony.

There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.'

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.