Variety Quotes
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.
I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.
Playing solo is difficult because you have to keep the momentum yourself. You have to continue to create and develop, so it forces you to stretch in a variety of ways.
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.
In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy.
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful.
I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.
The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.
As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.
I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.
Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
