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.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
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 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 ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
~By Petrarch ~
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
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 ~
Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
~By Gale Norton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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 ~
The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
~By Richard Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
~By Kenny Baker ~
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 ~
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 ~
The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.
~By Marc Morial ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
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 ~
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 ~
People want variety and something that is affordable.
~By Bobby Brown ~
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
~By Hank Stram ~
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 ~
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 ~
The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
~By Lynn Barber ~
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
~By William Cowper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
~By Ansel Adams ~
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 ~
Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
~By Namie Amuro ~
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 ~
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
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 expression of divinity is in variety.
~By Sheri S. Tepper ~
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 ~
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
~By Neil Tennant ~
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
~By Michael Oxley ~
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
~By James Thomson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I play a huge variety of roles.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
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 ~
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
~By John McEnroe ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
~By Joan Collins ~
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 ~
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 ~
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~By James Branch Cabell ~
The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.
~By Robert Nelson ~
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 ~
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
~By Kip Winger ~
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.
~By Virgil Goode ~
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 ~
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 do do such a variety, especially if you consider all five records.
~By Josh Silver ~
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 ~
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
~By Francis Bacon ~
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
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