Quotes About Variation

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

these were physically variant forms of the familiar elements. These different forms of an element are chemically identical—hence the same element—but physically different. These distinct varieties are called isotopes, from the Greek for 'equally placed' (in the periodic table of the elements).

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I'll go bungee-jumping.

Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.

There is nothing similar between the pharmaceutical and textile business.

Texts are always in flux.

As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

natural selection," not only changes in individual species

One of the stock arguments against describing the sexual act is that it is always the same. Sade's structure is based on the conviction that it is not: an enormously extended set of variations moves progressively away from the original theme. This was not merely a stratagem for avoiding repetition: it was a logical development from the assumption that to the connoisseur of sexual pleasure, diversification is essential.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'. ... 'You'd be surprised' wouldn't be a bad motto either.

Waltzing is not the same thing as dancing, since the rhumba is also a dance but it is not a waltz. It therefore follows that one can waltz without dancing the waltz.

resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring.

Outlier (noun): 1. Something that is situated away from, or classed differently from, a main or related body. 2. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.

If you want to feel the sunshine, change position!

the racetrack results go through phases when certain methods succeed and certain methods fail.

The only constant we have is change.

of English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation, one cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn.

Sometimes the apple rolls very far from the tree.