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Quotes About Variation

You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes.
~ Josh Lanyon
Maybe no one's really crazy. Everyone is just a little bit mad. How much depends on where you fall in the spectrum. How much depends on how lucky you are.
~ Joshua Walters
Sólo la minúscula mutación de un acontecimiento puede poner fin a toda la serie cíclica de muchos iguales
~ Juan Benet
With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.
~ Flying Lotus
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Las personas nunca cambian; cambian las circunstancias. Y esa variación es la que modifica las relaciones entre las personas.
~ Federico Andahazi
Las personas nunca cambian; cambian las circunstancias. Y esa variación es la que modifica las relaciones entre las personas. Las
~ Federico Andahazi
Unser ganzes Unglück rührt daher, dass wir uns nie wiederholen wollen. Als gebe es mehrere Wahrheiten.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Does a 'Stair-way' very much or does it depend upon the number pf steps and risers:
~ Frabcus M. Faber Jt.
Anomalies are to be expected, but there is still a certain pattern to the chaos.
~ Harlan Coben
I think certain types of processes don't allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.
~ Haruki Murakami
When we say that men are taller than women, the words -on average- are implied. Pointing to the existence of your friend Rhonda, who really is quite tall, does not negate the statistical truth that, on average, men are still taller than women.
~ Heather E. Heying
I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. 'Exit the King' is also 'The Bald Soprano.'
~ Eugene Ionesco
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
~ Ravi Shankar
I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.
~ Ben Gibbard
Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.
~ Craig Venter
A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.
~ Bruce Beutler
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.
~ Peter R. Grant
Fashion's transient - it moves.
~ Louise Wilson
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
~ Sorin Cerin
Still I saw not how that righteousness, which good and holy men obeyed, did far more excellently and sublimely contain in one all those things which God commanded, and in no part varied; although in varying times it prescribed not every thing at once, but apportioned and enjoined what was fit for each.
~ St. Augustine
İçimdeki bu k?p?rt?s?zl?kla hayat?m giderek tekdüzeleÅŸti, uÄŸraÅŸlar?m?n ve olaylar?n çeÅŸitliliÄŸine raÄŸmen günler öne ç?kan bir ÅŸey olmadan peÅŸ peÅŸe diziliyor, bir aÄŸac?n yapraklar? gibi yeÅŸeriyor ve sarar?p gidiyorlard?.
~ Stefan Zweig
Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
~ Lynn Margulis
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.
~ Danny Boyle