Top 565 Format Quotes & Sayings

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call it what it really is, which is a mini-series. "24" is a really good example, in that there was a definitive beginning, middle and end for the first season. They had a slightly different format than we have, but the second season just retained Jack Bauer and a few other players, with the same basic format and idea, but it was a completely different show.

I guess my game plan in ODI cricket is very set with the new ball and at the death. In Test cricket, you have to bowl longer and batsmen don't have to score as quickly. But at the same time, as a bowler, you can bring in some aspects of one format to the other format.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a scribble or clean handwriting or type it, the content remains the same. You want to write in clean hand, in a kind of a clear format only because it is aesthetically pleasing. I can scribble, that's also fine.

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.

I have a lot of respect, whatever format I play.

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

As for what attracts me to 'Rising Star,' it's undoubtedly the live format.

If you want to convey a message, you must do so in an enjoyable format.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

If you know how to score runs, you can perform in any format.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

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

Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.

I might come across as a regular woman, but I didn't live my life by a format.

Every time you jump to another format in the 'picture business,' meaning film, television, commercials, the people in the other format go, 'Ah, yeah, you made a lot of features, but you don't know how to do TV' or the commercial people go, 'Oh, you can't do 30 seconds.'

Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.

It would not be right for me to pick and choose where, when, and in what format I play for the Proteas.

When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.

I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a theatrical screening when I cannot trust that it will ever be seen in the format that it's intended to be.

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.

As a format, I have watched shows from the West. I have tried to understand what it is and how this format is treated by writers, directors, and actors. I have been studying this format for four to five years.

There are still great artists in the country format.

I can apply myself to the format of 'SNL,' I can apply myself to the format of 'Conan,' but at the same time, I'm still being J. B. Smoove. I'm not changing up my style, I'm not changing up how I think, what's funny to me, my delivery, the way I carry myself.

'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.

I've done some moderating in the past at CBSSports.com. Certainly not in the debate format.

I was the first judge in the 'Indian Idol' format. The biggest risk when you adapt a format from a country in the West is how to make it your own, so I remember at the press conference for Indian 'X Factor,' the press would ask, 'Who is Simon Cowell?' And I said 'Why don't you ask Simon Cowell, 'Who is Sonu Nigam?'

In my life, I didn't get into comedy to be - I had no business model. All I wanted to do was, basically, finish becoming myself. And you stand in front of people and be seen and heard in this format. I thought it was the most practical format for me to express whatever it was I was going through. Whatever my ideas were in my evolving philosophy about life. I obviously don't sell out theaters. I'm not a household name. I'm not incredibly consistent in terms of doing the same act over and over again, and I'm definitely working out a lot of my existential issues onstage.

Doing a format parody is one of my favorite things to do in comedy.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

Learning how to use different formats has made me a better photographer. When I started working in medium format, it made me a better 35 mm photographer. When I started working in 4x5, it made me a better medium-format photographer.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

Tests are special, the format closest to my heart.

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

The points format rewards you for having wins throughout the playoffs.

I think that's how it has to be in a tournament format. You can't dwell on games.

I am drawn towards this new format of web series.

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

I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.

It's Twenty20, anything can happen in the format. It's very difficult to predict and pick a favourite team in this format.

BoJack' is a very much a format-based show. The story should always match the format, but I don't necessarily think the story has to come first.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

I thought late-night was crowded... the format's repetitive.

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

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

I love 'The Office' format so much that I wanted to close it out.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

My preparation is different for every format.

Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

I can say is usually people are slightly confused. They think that silent movies are old. But, the fact is, they are old because they have been made in the '20s. That's the thing that makes them old. Not the format. The format is just a format. It's not an old format.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

It's nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that's 45 minutes. You had A-side songs and B-side songs; I always loved the first song on side B. And there's nothing wrong with that. Prog albums of the 70s adapted to that format very much. But not all musicians want to create 45 minutes of music that has to be listened to in chronological order.

I love music videos, and I think maybe it's my favorite format.