I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
~By Kip Winger ~
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 ~
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 ~
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
~By Petrarch ~
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 know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
Variety is the spice of love.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
~By Gale Norton ~
I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
~By Jean Paul ~
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
~By Tom Hooper ~
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 ~
NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.
~By Bob Inglis ~
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
~By Christopher Wren ~
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.
~By Davy Jones ~
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
~By Mary Wesley ~
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
~By Robert Fortune ~
Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.
~By Kenny Harrison ~
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
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 ~
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
~By Hank Stram ~
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
~By Osbert Lancaster ~
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 ~
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
~By Joe Baca ~
Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
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.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
~By George G. Simpson ~
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 ~
For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
~By David Lavender ~
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
~By Johnny Carson ~
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
~By Tipper Gore ~
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
~By Plato ~
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 ~
I play a huge variety of roles.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
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 ~
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
~By Kim Campbell ~
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
~By Barney Frank ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
~By E. M. Forster ~
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.
~By Tim Holden ~
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 ~
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 ~
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
~By Thomas Perry ~
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 ~
These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.
~By John Shadegg ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
~By Lynn Barber ~
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 ~
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
~By William Cowper ~
Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
~By Susie Bright ~
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 ~
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
~By Nora Roberts ~
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 ~
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 ~
Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
~By Ken Wilber ~
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
~By Ashley Judd ~
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
~By John W. Thompson ~
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
~By George Stephen ~
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
~By Ivor Novello ~
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
~By Samuel McChord Crothers ~
We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.
~By Alan Keyes ~
A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
~By Gary Miller ~
I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.
~By Andre Braugher ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
~By Peter Hammill ~
But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.
~By Adrienne Barbeau ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
~By Patrick Stewart ~
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
~By Walter Crane ~
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
~By Aphra Behn ~
Dandyism is a variety of genius.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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