Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the… — Damien Hirst
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions,… — Hans Hofmann
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. — Simon Hoggart
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. — Hypatia
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time… — Elfriede Jelinek
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. — Ray Kroc
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. — Hugh Laurie
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense… — Jerry Lewis
I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right. — Ricky Martin
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance,… — Norman McLaren
I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt.… — Nicki Minaj
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought… — Dylan Moran
Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket. — Dee Dee Myers
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I… — Walter Dean Myers
I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take… — Joyce Carol Oates
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. — Thomas Paine
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. — Dennis Quaid
I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest… — Daniel Radcliffe
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. — David Rockefeller
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true.… — Francoise Sagan
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life. — Sharon Salzberg
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a… — Zadie Smith
If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because… — Bruce Springsteen
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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