I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my… — Britt Robertson Copy Share Image
The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own. — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related… — Leonard L. Berry Copy Share Image
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style.… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
A group of four cardinals wrote to [Pope] Francis accusing him of sowing confusion on important moral issues, and they asked for… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means… — Kwame Copy Share Image
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
“You said a formal dinner was where we dress up!" explained the little boy behind the monkey mask.” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
There are many different ways that people get licensed or ordained through different ministries, denominations, etc. So - but for myself, there… — Paula White Copy Share Image
Lunch is formal - that's when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along. — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image