Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank. — Simon Sinek
It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not,… — B. B. Warfield
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each… — Jane Jacobs
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,… — A.J. Ayer
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the… — Mark Hall
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came… — David Carson
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest… — Henry Ward Beecher
A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but… — Harold Jeffreys
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description… — Karl Pearson
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to… — William Thurston
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally. — Alain Resnais
I have no formal culinary training, right. — Thomas Keller
The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people. — Wayne Mack
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life. — B.F. Skinner
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. — Scott Westerfeld
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people… — John McGahern
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. — Delmore Schwartz
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
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free… — Dave Hickey
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them. — Anton Corbijn
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of… — Shahzia Sikander

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