Variety Quotes - Page 20

• A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

  W. G. Grace

  Effort, Healthy, Fellowship

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• Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Beautiful, Essence, Grace

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• The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

  Tabitha Soren

  Jobs, Interesting, Constant

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• I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

  JoAnne Carner

  Sports, Confidence, Knowing

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• This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

  John Grant

  Country, Ocean, Unique

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• 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

  Ike Skelton

  Country, World, Regulation

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• We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

  Luigi Russolo

  Circles, Sound, Break Out

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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• 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.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  People, Choices, Action

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• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Real, Expression, Order

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• 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.

  Robert Fortune

  Chinese, Stones, Species

  Robert Fortune (2012). “A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

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• Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

  Robert Fortune

  Eye, Opposites, Tree

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.112

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• Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.

  Leigh Michaels

  Book, Luxury, People

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• Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods, and get enough physical activity.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Practice, Healthy, Special

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• No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Long, Lasts, Pleasure

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• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Order, Play

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching

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• Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

  Brian Ellis

  Law, Acting, Body

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• Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.

  Robert Mark Kamen

  Writing, Gossip

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• All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Conventions, Enjoyable

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• 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.

  Eisaku Sato

  War, People, World

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• Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

  Mary Schmich

  Art, Views, Angle

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• A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

  George Washington

  Attachment, Evil, Passionate

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.40, New York : J. Wiley

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• If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.

  Skip Heitzig

  Unity, Anarchy, Boring

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• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Beauty, Opposites, Simplicity

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.150

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• Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Roots, Unity, Progress

  james freeman clarke (1864). “the hour whic conveth and now is sermons preached in indiana place chapel boston”, p.114

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