It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
~By Alva Noto ~
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.
~By Jerry Goldsmith ~
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
~By Henryk Sienkiewicz ~
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
~By Lynn Barber ~
Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.
~By Susan Boyle ~
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
~By Gilbert White ~
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.
~By John Lithgow ~
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
~By Walter Lang ~
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
~By Johnny Carson ~
Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.
~By Jon Porter ~
Variety is the spice of love.
~By Helen Rowland ~
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
~By Ron Moody ~
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
~By Federico Fellini ~
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
~By Mary Antin ~
I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
~By Ashley Judd ~
People want variety and something that is affordable.
~By Bobby Brown ~
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful.
~By Gene Krupa ~
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
~By Dave Barry ~
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.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
~By Italo Calvino ~
Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
~By Mary Wortley ~
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
~By Breckin Meyer ~
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
~By Jon Stewart ~
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
~By John Sebastian ~
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
~By E. M. Forster ~
We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.
~By Eric Heiden ~
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.
~By Todd Barry ~
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
~By Aphra Behn ~
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
~By Howard Staunton ~
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
~By William Shenstone ~
I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
~By Adam Arkin ~
I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.
~By Amy Weber ~
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.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
~By Danielle Dax ~
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
~By Joan Collins ~
All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
~By Katie Couric ~
We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
~By Robert Shea ~
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
~By Tipper Gore ~
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
~By Tim Bishop ~
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.
~By Markus Wolf ~
But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.
~By Adrienne Barbeau ~
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
~By Osbert Lancaster ~
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
~By Hank Stram ~
Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
~By Pat Brown ~
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
~By George G. Simpson ~
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
~By John Doolittle ~
I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors.
~By John Turturro ~
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
~By Ken Wilber ~
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.
~By Quintilian ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
I play a huge variety of roles.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
~By Ian Smith ~
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
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.
~By Ruth Buzzi ~
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
~By Kenny Baker ~
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
~By Todd Barry ~
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
~By Robert McChesney ~
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
~By Mary Schmich ~
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
~By Richard Price ~
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
~By Elias Hicks ~
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
~By Kip Winger ~
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
~By David Lavender ~
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
~By Jim Henson ~
A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form.
~By George Grey ~
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.
~By Herman Kahn ~
The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
~By Richard Wilson ~
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
~By Ike Skelton ~
We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.
~By Tom Cochrane ~
So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
~By Roger Ebert ~
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
~By James Loeb ~
If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
~By Michael P. Anderson ~
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the same, same, same. There's no variety, just the same music.
~By Compay Segundo ~
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.
~By Mark McGrath ~
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