Strict Quotes
427 quotes by 373 authors
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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
— Thomas Browne
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You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.
— William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart…
— David Ogilvy
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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
— Ansel Adams
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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
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When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent;…
— Erasmus Darwin
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners…
— Ralph Allen
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All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people…
— Brigham Young
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If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature…
— John Muir
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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their…
— Will Rogers
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But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ...…
— Matthew Arnold
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Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
— Frederick Lenz
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It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular…
— Frederick Lenz
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Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that…
— Karl Popper
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One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.
— Yukimi Nagano
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I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a…
— Kate Hudson
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The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each…
— Kate Bush
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Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which…
— Amy Chua
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Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
— Vanna Bonta
Who Wrote These Strict Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 427 Strict Quotes, led by these top contributors: