Quotes About Formalist Criticism

#1. One of the problems with fame ... is they try to pigeonhole you ... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Charles A. Reich

#2. I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Pete Sampras

#3. Woman, you're killing me.

Denise Hunter

#4. The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. That I should just dive in and let my world fall apart and rebuild itself. That if I can embrace change, I can embrace death, and that is the secret to liberation.

Suzanne Morrison

#6. To gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.

John O'Donohue

#7. You can't undo a deportation.

Jonathan Shapiro

#8. My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

M.I.A.

#9. In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Andrew Mason

#10. Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.

Vance Havner

#11. Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

Burt Rutan

#12. I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

Shane Black

#13. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#14. Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

Harold Rosenberg