Quotes by Variation Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. Jack Horner variationhad-enoughdinosaurs Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain. Jackie Mason variationpeoplethinking There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme Jacqueline Carey variationendlesspatterns Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you? James MacDonald variationknowingmind Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half Jan Timman variationchess-gamegames ...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone. Jean Genet variationcharacterbook I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them. Jim Jarmusch repetitionvariationthinking I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music. Jim Jarmusch variationpaintingform I'm very interested in variations. Jim Jarmusch variation The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon. John A. Keel trojan-horsevariationage I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. Johannes Brahms variationformsometimes Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation. John Dieterich variationrealizingelements Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. John Kenneth Galbraith variationinnovationdesign There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. John Lennon variationnotesmusic All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees. John Lennon variationtryingkids There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. John Rawls variationmoraldoubt Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. John Szarkowski variationmusicsimple I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions. John Towner Williams variationrelieffrustrated You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. John Steinbeck variationchaosmonsters The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. John Ruskin variationeyeexpression«12345678»
