Variety Quotes - Page 35

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

Ellsworth Huntington

Support, Ordinary, Doe

Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”

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To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Pyramids, Healthy, Persons

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In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first published Euler gives no proof. In place of a proof, he offers an inductive argument: he verifies the relation in a variety of special cases. There is little doubt that he also discovered the theorem, as many of his other results, inductively.

George Polya

Numbers, Discovery, Giving

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Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.

Rene Descartes

Sunshine, Diversity, Experience

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A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

Stefan Zweig

Sweet, Firsts, Rich

Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.76, Pushkin Press

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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.

Jason Mraz

Impact, People, World

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I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Linda Lael Miller

Writing, Historical, Stories

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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

John Frusciante

Guitar, Color, Goes On

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If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.

James Hutton

Race, Hands, Body

"An Investigation into the Principles of Knowledge". Book by James Hutton, 1794.

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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Book, Style, Add

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

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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.

Davy Jones

Artist, People, Guy

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Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Victoria Wood

Goes On, Television, Radio

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Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Children, Autism, Improvement

"Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

James Lileks

Hate, Mustache, Looks

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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

Warren Farrell

Men, Rejection, Fantasy

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There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

Richard P. Feynman

Distance, Simple, Finals

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In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very few places that offers intelligence, integrity, and variety.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Integrity, Media, Boston

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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World, Rich, Occasions

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Gloria Steinem

Men, Expression, Vivacious

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.293, Open Road Media

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The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Margaret Mead

Marriage, Men, Civilization

"Male and Female". Margaret Mead, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 66 (p. 36), September 1949.

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Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Hate, Men, Two

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

T. S. Eliot

Culture, Sake, Aim

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

Desmond Morris

Indulge In, Unusual, Homosexuality

Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.

Martina Navratilova

Exercise, Spices, Variety Is The Spice Of Life

"Martina Navratilova On Staying Fit, Coming Out, Battling Cancer And Transcending Sports". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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