Irregularity Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore… — Joseph Addison
Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have… — Otto Lilienthal
In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of… — Jeffrey Skilling
I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. — Stephanie Tubbs Jones
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a… — Thomas Sprat
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome"… — Tom Peters
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of… — Henry Walter Bates
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… — Octavio Paz
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,… — E. M. Forster
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the… — Samuel Johnson
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities. — Frank X. Barron
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. — Aleister Crowley
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like… — Joshua Foer
The word itself has another color. Itâ€™s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now… — William H. Gass

Who Wrote These Irregularity Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 26 Irregularity Quotes as follows: