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Quotes About Variation

Life is a kaleidoscope, like I said. One minute things seem one way; next minute clicks you up a whole new picture.
~ Tony Johnston
Life was often simply the repetition of the same movements in a different order, depending on the day and the place.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.
~ Kevin Crossley-Holland
A player whose technical skill is not of the first rank will make gracenotes longer than they should be. As a result he has to shorten the theme notes (unless he is to drag the variation badly.) Short theme notes means less emphasis on the melody.
~ Kirsty Gunn
Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?
~ Koji Suzuki
Change is one of my favourite words.
~ Carol Vorderman
Well, like, the screenplay is about the book, so, like, it's kind of the book, only in different form, like the way iced coffee is still coffee even though it's cold.
~ Caroline Kepnes
That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sve pri?e koje su se dogodile nalik su jedna na drugu, svaka pri?a koja se nije dogodila, nije se dogodila na svoj na?in.
~ Georgi Gospodinov
There is nothing hot that will not get cold.
~ Haitian proverb
Everyone recognises that genes are part of the story but autism isn't 100% genetic. Even if you have identical twins who share all their genes, you can find that one has autism and one doesn't. That means that there must be some non-genetic factors.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
See, it's kind of like James Bond. There's a new James Bond every couple of years. Maybe I can do the new 'MacGyver' and put my own twist on it.
~ Lucas Till
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
~ Jock Sturges
When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it.
~ Craig Venter
I have watched many Premier League games and they look very different to the Spanish game, particularly much faster.
~ Pedro
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.
~ Peter R. Grant
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
~ George C. Williams
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
~ Asa Gray
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
~ Ernst Mayr
My theory is the spectrum: there's a spectrum of sexuality.
~ Lauren Jauregui
Every organization can move at a different speed.
~ Charles W. Scharf
I don't need to run in and bowl 90mph every spell to get wickets.
~ Jofra Archer
You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.
~ Harbhajan Singh