Quotes About Variation

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

from a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether

Original Design.' The bell curve that we encountered in Chapter 3 represents the normal distribution, in which 68.2 per cent of outcomes are within one standard deviation (plus or minus) of the mean.

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.

The human species is an animal species without very much variation within it, and it is idle and futile to imagine that a voyage to Tibet, say, will discover an entirely different harmony with nature or eternity.

Evolution doesn't really have a destination. It's just dicking around with possibilities.

Yes, everything flows, everything changes, it's impossible to step twice into the same transport.

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule.

Each scream is as different as each Red Boy. Different and the same.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Lest we forget that Shakespeare spelled his surname in five different ways. None of them was S H A K E S P E A R E.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

How to describe hell? Disembowelled landscape busy with suffering, incessant heat, permanent scarlet twilight, a swirling snowfall of ash, the stink of pain and the din of...if only, hell is two things: the absence of God and the presence of time. Infinite variations on that theme. Doesn't sound so bad, does it? Well, trust me.

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike...

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.

Limit Hold'em is the game for you if you bore easily and crave fast action. Conversely, in No Limit, the game will often slow to a halt when someone is faced with a big decision. That's uncommon in Limit games because all-in bets are rare.

I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.

The world is hugely unequal.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and the goddamned wind.

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon — a streak of lean and a streak of fat.