Mode Quotes

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
Renee Fleming

Means, Singer, Toward

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
Wislawa Szymborska

Work, Good, Respect

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
Wislawa Szymborska

Work, Good, Respect

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
Adam Clarke

God, Truth, Enemy

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
Lucinda Williams

Time, Writing, Coffee

I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
Patrick Dempsey

Hate, Wife, Face

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.
Erin Morgenstern

Trying, Between, Write

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Charles de Secondat

Nature, Favor, Speaking

You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
Dick Dale

Music, Sex, Played

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Jacques Barzun

Opinion, Between, Since

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
Clara Zetkin

Women, Find, Question

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
Barry McGuire

Real, Lost, Down

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
John Green

Time, Hope, Long

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.
Ludacris

Time, Job, Writing

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.
Ludacris

Best, Experience, Through

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
Elihu Root

Peace, Nature, War

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
Simon Newcomb

Time, Society, Thinking

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Andrzej Wajda

Old, However, Filmmaking

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
Jack Schwartz

Faith, Both, Left

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
Claire McCaskill

Work, Focus, Job

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom

School, Thinking, Through

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
H. P. Blavatsky

Becoming, Activity, Deity

Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.
Kathy Mattea

Family, Crisis, Two

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
Felix Frankfurter

Effort, Inevitable, Reached

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry Mayhew

Knowledge, Using, Inductive

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.
Elton Gallegly

History, Important, Horse

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Richard Cobden

Another, Commerce, Wars

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
Lee Konitz

Real, Playing, Names

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
Edward Tufte

Nature, Here, Idea

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.
Martin Gore

Older, Records, Points

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