Vary Quotes

• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Lying, Sleep

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• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Soul, Mind

  Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

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• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

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• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Order, Envy, May

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• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Artist, World

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• For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.

  Claude Monet

  Change, Doe, Landscape

  Joachim Pissarro, Claude Monet (1990). “Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894”, Pavilion Books, Limited

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• Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Flesh

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• Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

  François Lelord

  People, Heaven, Earth

  François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.87, Gallic Books

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  For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Change, Stars

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• The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Work Out, Way

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

  Heidi Julavits

  Somewhere Else, Want, Sometimes

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Every McDonald's commercial ends the same way: Prices and participation may vary. I wanna open a McDonald's and not participate in anything. I wanna be a stubborn McDonald's owner. "Cheeseburgers?" "Nope! We got spaghetti, and blankets."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mcdonalds

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• NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Political, States, Members

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Quality, Doe, Needs

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• My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.

  Nicole Hollander

  Perfect, Weight, Height

  Nicole Hollander (2017). “We Ate Wonder Bread”, p.2, Fantagraphics Books

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• I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Writing, Drawing

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

  Karen Horney

  Culture, Normal, Courses

  Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.15, Routledge

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• All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sunday, Night, Lakes

  Leigh Hunt (1857). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee”, p.112

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• I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Play, People, Mad

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Independent, People, Atheism

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Flower, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.14

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• For the most part, I do not go out all that often, so it varies.

  Angie Everhart

  Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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