The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate.… — Janny Scott 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
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
The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of… — Salvatore Quasimodo 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
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training. — June Squibb 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
Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image
Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then… — Ann Lewin-Benham Copy Share Image
[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in… — Charles K. Kao Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains… — Giovanni Raboni Copy Share Image
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image