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Quotes About Variation

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.
~ Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.
~ Michael Lewis
wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring propose so many different variations on what it means to be an apple -- at least five per apple, several thousand per tree -- that a couple of these novelties are almost bound to have whatever qualities it takes to prosper in the tree's adopted home.
~ Michael Pollan
You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.
~ Michael McKean
Emotions are the same to all human beings. But there is some difference in the way people react to situations.
~ Mammootty
I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.
~ Jim Jarmusch
I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.
~ Marc Almond
If you count proper nouns, the word in English with the most varied spellings is air with a remarkable thirty-eight: Aire, ayr, heir, e'er, ere, and so on.
~ Bill Bryson
Nor can we be entirely confident how he pronounced his name. Helge Kökeritz, author of the definitive Shakespeare's Pronunciation, thought it possible that Shakespeare said it with a short a, as in "shack." It may have been spoken one way in Stratford and another in London, or he may have been as variable with the pronunciation as he was with the spelling.
~ Bill Bryson
I … there is a great discrepancy between
~ Julie Cohen
Man is a machine and… in the whole universe there is but a single substance variously modified.
~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
History is never obliging enough to replay itself in all details.
~ Kamila Shamsie
A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.
~ Anne Wojcicki
You could probably convince me that North Jersey and South Jersey should be two separate states. They're just so different.
~ Ramy Youssef
There were discrepancies. Sometimes
~ Frederick Forsyth
Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The organization of the Church should free us to express ourselves in infinite variations within the eternal guidelines that will keep us safe from self-destruction.
~ Brent L. Top
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
~ Bret Harte
Luck is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you.
~ Bret Harte
Things are always different from what they might be.
~ Henry James
The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -
~ Heraclitus
My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.
~ Nikki Glaser
In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I cannot keep the seed of the same plant. If I keep the seed of the same plant, yield will be much less and there will be a wide variation in the field, like maturity period, quality and so on.
~ M. S. Swaminathan