Variations Quotes

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

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

In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

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.

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.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

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.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

Bowling in sub-continental conditions is not easy for a fast bowler. You have to be consistent and persistent to succeed, especially when you are bowling to the likes of Sangakkara, Mahela, Samaraweera, and Dilshan.

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

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

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

I'm very interested in variations.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Everybody has different ways of playing the game.