I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are… — Elizabeth Barton Copy Share Image
Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image