Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world. — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything. — David Carradine Copy Share Image
Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. — Melissa Gilbert 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
Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition. — Arundhati Roy 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
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should… — G. Wilson Knight Copy Share Image
If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your… — Strive Masiyiwa Copy Share Image
[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg,… — Jon Gordon 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
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski 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
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
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