Variety Quotes

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

Its always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, Ive been lucky with the things Ive been asked to do.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.

I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

I love variety in my life.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

The U.S. didn't save enough; we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.

You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

I've done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum sound.

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors

When you start and you're taking the character seriously, it's going to lead down a variety of paths.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.