Quotes of Formulate - somelinesforyou

“ On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam That through his lattice peeped derisively. ”

- Robert Pollok

“ The tyrant nowTrusts not to men: nightly within his chamberThe watch-dog guards his couch, the only friendHe now dare trust. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary. ”

- Colleen McCullough

“ The latest draft put together by the Chinese delegation is a very negotiated document,... We were really getting close, close to the end of this round. ”

- Christopher Hill

“ He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ”

- Colleen McCullough

“ You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps. ”

- Roseanne Barr

“ Draft registration destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ”

- Robert Burns

“ We must use what we have to invent what we desire. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ We got on the front page instead of Tommy Cruise, this is just my version of couch-dancing. ”

- Russell Crowe

“ It's a how-to show with entertainment and a live audience,... It's not a talk show? I don't see a couch anywhere. ”

- Martha Stewart

“ If you think about it, the word "composing" or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out. ”

- Jan Hammer

“ I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars. ”

- Jenny McCarthy

“ He came here as a first-round draft choice; he was a 2,000-yard rusher in college. ”

- Tony Richardson

“ The role of the intelligence — that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. ”

- Simone Weil

“ One learns that the opinions formulated by the pens of our great thinkers over the centuries are strange indeed. ”

- Jacques Lacan

“ Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips. ”

- Hallesby

“ If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. ”

- Celia Cruz

“ We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. ”

- Augustine J. Duganne

“ If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ It is not hard to see things as they really are, it is simply a matter of tearing down walls, ridding oneself of defenses and presumption, rendering oneself vulnerable, an idiot, a fool. But it is not easy to see things as they really are, because it is painful, it is real, it requires response, it's an incredible commitment… ”

- Paul Williams

“ If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action… ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes… ”

- Karl Buhler

“ We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ”

- William Ralph Inge
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