Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live… — Fay Godwin
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a… — Elliott Erwitt
I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I… — Sam Elliott
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared… — Anthony Giddens
You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you.… — Paul Feig
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that… — Kim Harrison
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. — David Knopfler
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out… — Sara Zarr
I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year… — Charles William Eliot
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling… — Terence Tao
Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present… — Peter York
There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth.… — Peter York
I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow… — Sessue Hayakawa
I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no… — David Hockney
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts.… — Gregory Bateson
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. — Stephen Spender
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of… — Hans Hofmann
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding...… — Emily Carr
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,… — John Taylor Gatto
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. — David Hilbert
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,… — Herbert Read
The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I… — Elizabeth Barton
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James… — Dallin H. Oaks
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it… — Wayne Thiebaud

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