Formalized Quotes

#1. Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It's packaged. We don't live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Alan Joshua

#2. A consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

Kurt Godel

#3. The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

Claes Oldenburg

#4. natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.

Doris Bradbury

#5. There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

Sean Penn

#6. Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Erma Bombeck

#7. If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

Mos Def

#8. What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

Eric Idle

#9. My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

Toni Morrison

#10. Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.

Toba Beta

#11. Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

Jurgen Habermas

#12. Mind can conceive and believe, and your heart desire, you can achieve.

Norman Vincent Peale

#13. When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

Dan Gilroy

#14. I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.
There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. ("Substitutions")

Michael Marshall Smith

#15. I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

Martha Stewart

#16. Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

Alonzo Church

#17. Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Lord Chesterfield

#18. I lean forward and pinch his nostrils closed again, press my lips to his, and blow in more air. I think about all those times he stole my breath away. Why doesn't he use it now?

Steven Dos Santos

#19. The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

Bruce Lee

#20. Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

Andrea Dworkin

#21. The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic ... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Russell Baker

#22. In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

Miyamoto Musashi

#23. Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.

Nicola Sturgeon

#24. Today, many women of faith are conflicted. We are moving away from the church and formalized Christianity in record numbers because of the gap between patriarchal doctrine and our real lives.

Jennifer Crumpton

#25. In the right situation, highly formalized, high-suction ass-kissing not only comes all too naturally to me, it makes me breathless with a feeling of penitential power.

David Rakoff

#26. Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

#27. Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

Lynn Coady

#28. All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Nancy Pearcey

#29. We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

Vandana Shiva

#30. The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.

Ernest Hemingway,

#31. Female academics at King's in the 1950s were treated with a formalized disdain that

Bill Bryson

#32. I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

Margaret Atwood

#33. Here's what I haven't told you: Once before, in

Jodi Picoult