Top 319 Variations Quotes & Sayings

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

I'm very interested in variations.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

When you're calculating variations - especially long ones - it really helps to visualize the board.

There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?

I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.

The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.

I've been learning a lot about how to make a martini and all the variations that you can have with a few ingredients with Belvedere.

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.

I think the most fascinating thing in terms of relationships is imagining all the different variations that they could be.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh Symphony.'

When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.

Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

As to adding variations to my white ball bowling, ever since I started playing IPL, I realised you need variations. You can't survive on line and length. You need coaches around you who can guide you to get there. I have been lucky that I have had seniors and coaches who have helped me get there.

We need variations, variations in not just attempt but in flickers' attempts as well. I mean, a flicker needs to use different angles, pace to keep the opposition defence guessing.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

I have played a terrorist in 'Goodachari,' a feudal lord in 'Rangasthalam' and a factionist in 'AS.' The variations in all these characters are so different. It's only because of my directors that this was possible.

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

We have to stop using words like 'that time of the month' or other such variations. Say it: I have my periods. There is nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.

I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

In every video that I have done, I have tried to have lead actresses of different variations from size and color to nationality.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

One needs to have variations. You won't survive if you don't have one - especially playing in India, as they are good players of spin.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Obviously in T20, variations are important whereas bowling lots of slower balls in a Test isn't going to help anyone.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.