Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field.… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal… — John Francis Copy Share Image
As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end… — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face,… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road; you never know when you'll be invited to something really… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity.… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other… — Wayne Mack Copy Share Image
Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image