Formal Quotes - Page 8

• The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  14 Copy quote

• Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

  Peter Meinke

  Jobs, Shapes, Poet

  4 Copy quote

• The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the imperial power had at least to explain and justify at home the actions it was taking abroad. In the colony those who served the ruling imperial power could at least look to its protection against any violent move by their opponents. With neocolonialism neither is the case.

  Kwame

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  4 Copy quote

• I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt like a different technique. We were very true to the lines, and there was something quite formal and almost theatrical about it.

  Felicity Jones

  Technique, Different, Done

  Source: www.shockya.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

  Alan Perlis

  Mean

  4 Copy quote

• As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

  Noam Chomsky

  Long, Television, Privilege

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.76, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We had doubts about the Kyoto Protocol, we wanted reasoning from our partners in the European Union, in the IPCC. Formal requests had been sent to these organizations. But we have not received responses yet, which suggests that no coherent answers can be offered. What we hear is 'it is not comprehensive responses that matter, we will not give them anyway; what is important is whether you believe us or not'.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Believe, Kyoto Protocol, Organization

  5 Copy quote

• The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Practice, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Government, Law

  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". John A. O'Brien Lecture in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Theology, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

  Stephen Covey

  Organization, Choices, Principles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Struggle, Past, Vision

  6 Copy quote

• It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

  David A. Embury

  Eye, Tired, Ice

  8 Copy quote

• Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.

  Gunter Brus

  Art, Believe, Drawing

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Perception, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

  George V. Higgins

  Blue, Sky, Young

  4 Copy quote

• You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Baseball, Redneck, Special

  7 Copy quote

• The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the cufflinks, the whole nine yards - he came at me, and I thought I was going to get nailed. But he literally came up to me and just gave me a hug and said, "Thank you for introducing me to a subject that I didn't know anything about." In those moments it always clicks for me what we're doing here.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Shoes, Guy, Hug

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.

  Dawoud Bey

  Thinking, People, Curiosity

  4 Copy quote

• I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

  Wendy Ewald

  Distance, Artist, Different

  Wendy Ewald, Adam D. Weinberg, Urs Stahel (2000). “Collaborative works with children 1969-1999”, Scalo Verlag Ac

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices.

  Thomas Roma

  Photography, Mean, Choices

  6 Copy quote

• For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Art, Practice

  Peter Wollen (1982). “Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies”, New Left Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage.

  Glenn Beck

  Dad, Thinking, Guy

  4 Copy quote

• I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.

  Rolf Harris

  Feelings, Portraits, Painting

  6 Copy quote

• Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Determination, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Aunt, People

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source