Quotes About Structure

May those of us with a shared vision of where we need to go and how to get there find each other and provide part of the structure around which the whole can reorganize itself.

The government was the mission of an entire society: why was the society undermining it? "I'm routinely appalled by how profoundly ignorant even highly educated people are when it comes to the structure and function of our government," she said. "The sense of identity as Citizen has been replaced by Consumer.

When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.

I was at an academy for basically my whole life when I played tennis, so I had the same schedule every single day.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.

I love that 'Black-ish' is a pretty traditional sitcom, structurally. It functions like the sitcoms from the '80s and '90s that I grew up with.

I always liked situations where there were very clear rules of what to do.

The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.

The general framework of the body is built up mainly of a series of bones, supplemented, however, in certain regions by pieces of cartilage; the bony part of the framework constitutes the skeleton.

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

The love of form is a love of endings.

In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.

What sets the carbon atom apart is that it is shamelessly promiscuous.

All Indo-European languages have the capacity to form compounds. Indeed, German and Dutch do it, one might say, to excess. But English does it more neatly than most other languages, eschewing the choking word chains that bedevil other Germanic languages and employing the nifty refinement of making the elements reversible, so that we can distinguish between a houseboat and a boathouse, between basketwork and a workbasket, between a casebook and a bookcase. Other languages lack this facility.