Quotes About Variety

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think Ive been lucky to do that.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

The history of the world is, sadly, not a pretty poem. It offers little variety, and it is nearly always the unpleasant things that are repeated, over and over again.

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.

overload. Too much, too much, too much! Why were there so many alternatives? So many different outcomes to be considered?

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.  

was not natural that men of different characters and tastes should be intimate, and

How dare Schlegels despise Wilcoxes, when it takes all sorts to make a world?

How dare Schlegels despise Wilcoxes, when it takes all sorts to make a world? "Don't brood too much," she wrote to Helen, "on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It's true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.

We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm freedom and dignity

A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything." —Gustav Mahler

There are all kinds of feathers. There are chicken feathers, and duck feathers, and quail feathers, and goose feathers, and flamingo feathers, and horse feathers, and even Leonard Feathers.

Apples are like days not all taste the same.

If a client insists on getting a recommendation from you, always give him at least two alternatives so that he still has to make choice.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

No two persons ever read the same book

No two persons ever read the same book".

No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emerald.

I try to think of a favorite among my arid-country flowers. But I love them all. How could we be true to one without being false to all the others?