Variations Quotes

#1. This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.

Charles Darwin

#2. Soldering iron, Max."
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used.

Nick Cutter

#3. There were variations on the truth, of course, but wasn't it always the hard one that worked the best?

D.C. Brod

#4. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

Dan Gilroy

#7. Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful.

Anita Baker

#8. The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

Jim Shaw

#9. It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

Savielly Tartakower

#10. In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

Leonid Shamkovich

#11. Communication is not only about words and numbers. Some thoughts can't be properly expressed in these ways at all. We also think in sounds and images, in movement and gesture, which gives rise to our capacities for music, visual arts, dance, and theater in all their variations.

Ken Robinson

#12. There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

Gloria Allred

#13. When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#14. My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.

Wole Soyinka

#15. The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

Talcott Parsons

#16. In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

Sol LeWitt

#17. If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of what we touch, do what a reptile would do if it were to set about writing!

Emil M. Cioran

#18. 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.

David Ricardo

#19. All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Margaret Fuller

#20. You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.

Maurice Samuel

#21. Music, in all of its variations and venues, is the world's oldest social network.

Richard J. Alley

#22. The characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.

Jean Genet

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

John Lennon

#24. 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

#25. It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.

Aziz Ansari

#26. My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#27. People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

Leslie Feinberg

#28. But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

#29. If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

Brad Leithauser

#30. I've been learning a lot about how to make a martini and all the variations that you can have with a few ingredients with Belvedere.

Stephanie Sigman

#31. I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

Pieter Zeeman

#32. We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations.

Elizabeth Blackburn

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

Mary McCarthy

#34. 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

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

C.S. Lewis

#36. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#37. Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Charles Darwin

#38. Everyone has fantasies and the variations in these visions of passion vary widely. It is a natural experience that occurs in every human being. Having a rich fantasy life is not only enjoyable, but psychologically "normal.

K. Kiker

#39. There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck.
Variations.

E. Lockheart

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

Tori Amos

#41. Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Charles Spurgeon

#43. Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

Emanuel Lasker

#44. An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.

Ted Nugent

#45. The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

Neil Pasricha

#46. Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

Sam Kean

#47. Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name.

Sharlto Copley

#48. Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

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

Daniel Barenboim

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#51. Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#52. Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Dean Koontz

#53. Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#54. 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.

Lena Dunham

#55. 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

#56. I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.

Pamela Anderson

#57. Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

George C. Williams

#58. It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Rachel Cohn

#59. Each one a little bit different but following some blueprint somewhere. As if each of us might have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

David Vann

#60. When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

Alexander Kotov

#61. 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

#62. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#63. Hell had many interpretations. Syn knew that better than anyone. In his life, he'd managed to live through most of the common variations and discover a multitude of new ones. Why

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#64. What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.

John Guare

#65. People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

Jonathan Kozol

#66. 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

#67. I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

Sylvia Plath

#68. The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

George Leonard

#69. I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.

Alexander Kotov

#70. I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

Joss Whedon

#71. In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges

#72. Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Franz Liszt

#73. Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

Savielly Tartakower

#74. It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design.

Hans Richter

#75. You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#76. Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

Tim Berners-Lee

#77. Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.

Michel Faber

#78. All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Lin Yutang

#79. It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

Virgil

#80. 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

#81. The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.

Philip James Bailey

#82. I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

Tim Curry

#83. I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

Marina Sirtis

#84. 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.

Teresa Jordan

#85. the good society would have a low rate of inheritance of social status and correspondingly low variations in income and wealth.

Gregory Clark

#86. Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Jan Timman

#87. It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.

Grant Morrison

#88. Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.

Alexander Kotov

#89. Not much good has ever been prefaced by variations of "Have a seat." I thought of headmasters' offices and electric chairs.

Melissa Jensen

#90. Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#91. No dish in history has as many variations, colors, motifs, tastes, textures and subtleties as a dish of pasta.

Marc Vetri

#92. When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money.

Ludwig Von Mises

#93. The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.

Carlo Grante

#94. As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.

Otto Wallach

#95. I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.

Michael E. Mann

#96. ...truth is bigger than thoughts. It is unchangeable, whereas opinion and knowledge have many angles and variations.

K.A. Gunn

#97. ..bright eyes and subtle variations of blue...

Owl City

#98. There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.

Howard Snell

#99. It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations.

John Robert Gregg

#100. I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

Bobby Fischer