Variation Quotes

A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

I'm very interested in variations.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.

In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK.

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

They've offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.