The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. — Jane Austen 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
More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail,… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result,… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein 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
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
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 don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I… — Vince Vaughn 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
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
