Variations On A Theme Quotes

#1. When you see these deep similarities among different organs and bodies, you begin to recognize that the diverse inhabitants of our world are just variations on a theme.

Neil Shubin

#2. All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

John Lennon

#3. Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

Caroline Knapp

#4. Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

Richard Holbrooke

#5. To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#6. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

John Lennon

#7. I ain't got no right to judge someone.

Frank Bruno

#8. Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

Mary McCarthy

#9. I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn't find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.

Pat Murphy

#10. The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

Michelle Franklin

#11. Be the hero of hearts; learn to say I'm sorry.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

Richard Dawkins

#13. Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

Jonathan Tropper

#14. True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself
one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#15. The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

James Fenton

#16. My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.

Samuel Beckett

#17. You are not as great or terrible as you think you are. Neither are they.

J.D. Mader

#18. Through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.

Edward Weston

#19. Kindness and love open the doors to one's soul.

Anthony D. Williams

#20. Poverty's a chilly theme," he said; "let's take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.

John Meade Falkner

#21. One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Gregory David Roberts

#22. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.

Orison Swett Marden

#23. I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Robert Wilson

#24. It takes all kinds to make a world go round.

Trent Shelton

#25. Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

Roald Amundsen

#26. When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.

Milan Kundera

#27. 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.

Pierre Schaeffer

#28. There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

James Cameron

#29. Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Fernand Point

#30. I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Tori Amos

#31. If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

Mickey Mantle

#32. A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme.

Pitigrilli

#33. One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

Judd Apatow