Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

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
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. — Denis Johnson
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education… — Bell Hooks
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. — Robert A. Heinlein
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My father had very little formal education. — Daniel Berrigan

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