Top 175 Format Quotes

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things that weren’t really in a musical format, which I put to some very electronic-based backing.

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.

One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion space is because the bedrock of visual storytelling is the reverse angle. If you can’t look into the eyes of the protagonist, you cannot hold people’s attention for more than 15 minutes.

The album format is what we grew up on. Its what we aspired to when we were first discovering music – its what’s what we know. We actually talked about this because nowadays, with iTunes and everything, there’s a lot of pressure to get this track and that track, whatever.

When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and pitch and suchlike of my recorded voice. Sounds better.

Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.

I’ve had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.

FlipBoard is the ‘W Magazine’ of the iPad-app world. The sleek interface makes content from your friends’ Facebook and Twitter feeds much easier on the eyes by displaying them in a magazine format.

The whole format of ‘Game of Thrones’ is that you just don’t know what to expect.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.

I love playing five days of cricket; personally, I think it’s the best format.

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It’s deliberate chaos.

Dating shows should exist for people who aren’t straight. They’re out there, there aren’t enough of them. Whether you try and squeeze a format that already works into something else. I don’t know.’

My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.

They are cheaper to make and easier to do; you can just cram in loads of talent into a format that works and works. But if you look back, a lot of people we love today like French and Saunders, Ricky Gervais and Steve Coogan, all started in sketch shows.

It’s a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it’s a great skill to go from screen to stage.

You have different stages in your career where you have different things to prove. And early on, like most people who move to Nashville, I wanted to prove that I belonged here, that I belonged in this format, that I had a love for it.

I’ve done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I’ve ever got is from the TV single plays I’ve written. It’s a format where you don’t mind saying, ‘I want to tackle some important themes head on.’

T20 is an unpredictable format, so you cannot rule out any team’s chances.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I’m reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.

CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I’m sure they’ll come out with a better format someday.

The thing that I like about magazines, paper magazines, and papers in any kind of tangible format is the surprise factor of turning the page and not necessarily knowing what you’re going to see. You’re not looking for something. You’re just experiencing something.

It’s so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you’re working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you’re going into a well-run ship already. Then it’s just a matter of creating these new characters.

I’m not the kind of artist who can just gear myself to a particular radio format without looking like a fashion victim.

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

For ‘The Anthem,’ a lot of my fans were like ‘Oh, man, he’s getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone’s doing these days.’ But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals.

‘Wings’ was a blessing, but it was also very difficult. Whenever you do situation comedy, no matter how excellent the execution – and we had a great cast and great writers – but the format is somewhat limited.

You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark – a funny and shrewd guy – into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.

The format of Netflix was the dream for us. It allowed us to make cinematic, longer episodes without interruption.

Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.

I always knew I had the game to do well in every format. It was just a matter of time.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I’m not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

But we also think that we’ve got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

‘The Sisters Brothers’ has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

I’m not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

I’ve always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book ‘pamphlet’ format and then collecting that work in book form, so I’ve just stuck with it.

I stumbled into this format for ‘Last Call with Carson Daly’ that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell’s ‘Insomniac.’ I love being out on the street.

Sometimes we get bored and want to shake up our format. It’s a luxury we have on public access – no one cares about us. It literally doesn’t matter if we fail, so sometimes we try to go really big and out of the box.

TV, that’s the ultimate goal. I hope to bring what I am doing now to a weekly television format.

Yes, I’ve listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. I’ve wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, ‘Convert this to Android format.’

I think that that is a wonderful format – you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre – there’s not enough of that out there.

When you’re writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

I don’t know if I’d mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

Charlamagne Tha God on ‘The Breakfast Club’ is, in my opinion, the best personality on the radio right now. We talk weekly. We couldn’t be any different format wise, but we have a very similar background and approach.

The anthology format is completely normal to me. That’s just how TV works in my experience.

I did everything the wrong way round. I started in an odd place, with the wrong skill set and arguably worked backwards. I began my television career in Hong Kong, making longer format films from around Asia, then I went to the other extreme – presenting local London news.

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.