Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. ~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ~By Ansel Adams ~
Dandyism is a variety of genius. ~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires. ~By Elias Hicks ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act. ~By Kenny Baker ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job. ~By Tabitha Soren ~
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 ~
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 ~
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet. ~By Tipper Gore ~
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety. ~By David Lavender ~
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 ~
Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety. ~By Ken Wilber ~
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ~By Joseph Butler ~
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 ~
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. ~By William Cowper ~
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
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 is the spice of love. ~By Helen Rowland ~
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 ~
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~By Petrarch ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II. ~By Eisaku Sato ~
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres. ~By Nora Roberts ~
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. ~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world. ~By Karolina Kurkova ~
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 ~
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 ~
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. ~By Lynn Barber ~
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 ~
We do do such a variety, especially if you consider all five records. ~By Josh Silver ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 expression of divinity is in variety. ~By Sheri S. Tepper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron. ~By Sasha Cohen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. ~By George G. Simpson ~
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 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 ~
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety. ~By Henryk Sienkiewicz ~
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 ~
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 hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. ~By Mira Sorvino ~
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. ~By E. M. Forster ~
People want variety and something that is affordable. ~By Bobby Brown ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. ~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. ~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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