We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover… — Nayantara Sahgal Copy Share Image
Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. — John Newton Copy Share Image
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy? — Simon Doonan Copy Share Image
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom 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
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely… — Abhishek Ratna Copy Share Image
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image