Variety Quotes - Page 37

• I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

  Nina Arianda

  Home, Skins, Use

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• 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.

  Adam Arkin

  Drama, Mean, Commitment

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• What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Holes, Continuity

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• I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

  Toni Collette

  Artist, Trying, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Danielle Dax

  People, Musical, Important

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• As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

  Michelle Forbes

  Actors, Want, Chords

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• I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

  Tim Ferriss

  Real, People, Fields

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• I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

  Brad Garrett

  Thinking, Bored, Schedules

  "Brad Garrett Gives Us the Goods on 'Til Death". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 16, 2008.

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• When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

  Lily Allen

  Teacher, Taken, School

  "13 Questions With Lily Allen". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. December 19, 2006.

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• 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.

  Mary Antin

  Father, Tin Cans, Cooking

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.

  Sutton Foster

  Silly, Writing, People

  "PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Sutton Foster; Catching Up With the Broadway and 'Bunheads' Star". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. September 8, 2012.

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• We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, Nature, Educational

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• The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist objectively, but their true mode of existence is like a dream: apparent yet insubstantial.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Dream, Reality, World

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• Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.

  George Armitage Miller

  Country, Believe, Science

  "The Science of Words". Book by George Armitage Miller (Preface, p. 7), 1991.

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• Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Civilization, Body

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• After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

  Joe Flanigan

  Jobs, College, Banking

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• I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

  Peter Facinelli

  Play, Careers, Inspire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

  Todd Gitlin

  Satisfaction, Entertainment, Kind

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• It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Ideas, Diversity, People

  "The moral roots of liberals and conservatives". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2008.

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• Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

  Tarja Halonen

  Country, Energy, Resources

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• 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.

  Bob Inglis

  Agency, Government, Track

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• The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Peace, Littles, Excitement

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Today, Opinion

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moving, Mean

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• I love accents, I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It’s like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement — for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

  Stana Katic

  Song, Character, Voice

  "Stana Katic: I'm a high stakes kind of girl". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 16, 2010.

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