Format Quotations

I've always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people.

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

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.

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

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

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

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.

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.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

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

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

Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

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.

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

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?'

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

Music is something young people get excited about, we thought this format would be great.

My sense is that her identity has been so associated with the morning news format that it will be difficult for her to make that transition and have the same kind of dominance that she enjoys in the morning.

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.

Like everyone in America, we're a little thin particularly on the defensive side. So we'll have to limit things on Saturday. We still hope to have a game format with a running clock and so forth. If we hold up we should be able to get that done. If we get a little more banged up we may have to adjust.

One of our aims was to encourage a country format station in Manhattan. ... Not having a station there makes it difficult in a lot of ways,

On ESPN, we're going to take a hard turn and really go deep into the X-and-O format of the game. We're going to have reports from the reporters every 20 minutes during the overlap time on ESPN, and we're going to dive in and dissect the game.

One of our goals is to make to the Peach Belt Tournament. This format will help us get ready because playing in a tournament is a different type of baseball.

More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.

Obviously they got a wakeup call. One thing we have learned in the international format is that anything can happen.

I did play-by-play for women's basketball at Davis and also had a sports talk show. I had been out of broadcasting for several years, but I wanted to get back into the business. This format affords people who want to do it as a hobby or gain experience.

Leverage has been a profitable trade in the past and it has allowed many closed-end funds to deliver very compelling yields, but the risk is your total return could suffer. Leverage can cut both ways; it can magnify your gains but it can also accentuate your losses. ... On the flip side, if you are delving into these more unusual strategies, one could argue the closed-end format lends itself to them pretty well, because your manager is not having to redeem shares everyday.

Since many voice recorders lack significant storage capability, the typical approach is simply to move data off the recorder to a DDS format tape, increasing the chances of significant issues surfacing by moving the data.

Mobile has such a great transitional environment. Short format content is going to bring about a mass market option with huge demand for it.

Most people are aware that a national switch to digital broadcasting is expected by the end of this decade. Less well known is the fact that a similar trend is under way in the world of publishing. By the year 2020, 40 percent of U.K. research monographs will be available in electronic format only, while a further 50 percent will be produced in both print and digital. A mere 10 percent of new titles will be available in print alone by 2020.

made representations to us recently they are planning to modify that license, and we believe, if they do so in the way that we understand that they have spoken about...the next iteration of the Open Format standard will include some Microsoft proprietary formats.

Silicon in its bulk format we all know is not an efficient emitter but when you get down to the quantum-confined sizes, you get very different effects. For the smaller sized particles you can get blue emission and for the larger particles you can get red emission. By having a film of these devices, you can electrically stimulate them.

Simon has his finger on the pulse of pop culture. This show will be a shot of adrenaline to the variety format with Simon's gift of discovering untapped talent, both great and uniquely not so great.

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

The prime motivator for studios to launch a next-generation high-def home-video format is to build pricing levels back up.

I created the title, masthead, the format and concept, as well as the Batman figure and costume. Robin, the boy wonder, was also my idea.

CBS has already picked up the format for this spring, and we're also spending a few hundred thousand dollars making our own broadcast-quality pilot of the all-new Catchphrase.

What is disappointing is that we have to choose, or pay big money to have one of each. I suspect that decision will drive me to indecision and I will wait on the sidelines until the price drops enough where I can afford one of each or a combo unit. However, if enough of my favorite movies are available on one format or the other, then that might drive me to purchase one sooner.

Having a file compression format and MP3 players aren't enough. The catalyst for online music distribution will be products that offer security for digital content and standards around which consumer electronics companies and others can build products.

If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,

He's coached in a lot of different places and tinkered with a lot of different ideas, but I've kept the same practice format that I learned from him for 14 years here. I guess he's gone the full cycle. He's always been very open-minded. He's receptive to change.

There is an on-going failure to establish a mutually acceptable format on such issues as fund-raising and publicity. The Rainier Historical Society regrets that such a move has to occur, as we had been hopeful that the River Queen might have a chance at being restored as a restaurant.

We've been trying to get away from the staid, traditional format of chamber music concerts because we're losing audience members to age. Chamber music is too easily seen as blue-hair stuff. That's why we have to get even more creative while maintaining the integrity of the series.

The people have changed, but the format is exactly the same.

The purpose of the debate is to find where the two of them are and where the two candidates are on the issues and I think the format is bad.

Look at it this way, ... The BCS was built to put two teams in the national championship game. ... You've only got what's in front of you. Anything else is a major format change within the BCS.

Survivor' is that rare television breed -- a show with seemingly endless audience appeal. Part of that is testament to a concept with inherent drama that features different faces and places; the other part is the ability of Mark Burnett and his talented team to inject new ideas and new wrinkles to keep the format fresh.

People often say, 'We'd like to do something in The New Yorker that's never been done before,' but we have high standards. There are some ads we don't accept if they break the format of the magazine.

I saw this as an opportunity to tell the story of conservation on Catalina. We've never really had an avenue to present that in a cohesive format to the public. We now have an avenue to tell people about what a complex and diverse job it is to manage a nature preserve of this size.

Just get it in the Chase and we would start working on stuff. I tell you what, I like this format but I'd just like to be on the inside of it. One year ago is when our problem started. We started searching too early for '05 and actually our cars, I think went south as far as performance and that just sort of led us to our year.

I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors.

Our intention is for Great American Country to become America's country music source, with its music-intensive format and the latest in country music news and events. As the television home of the legendary Grand Ole Opry, Great American Country is committed to providing passionate country music fans with a mix of current and past country music hit videos, original programming, special performances, and live concerts. And the place to make this happen is on Music Row in Nashville, Tenn.

It is exactly the same format except it's on Henderson Street.

I think the format is incredible. I think it was well thought out. I think the skins format has been the same for so long, I think it was getting a bit stale. I think this will infuse some life into it.

'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

It is a style of broadcasting that has been missing from the New Zealand television landscape for a number of years. The longer length interview format will give me the opportunity to find out what makes the guests tick.

RISS' search feature just didn't have the granularity we needed. Searches like that were taking around two weeks, between searching for the e-mails, extracting the data, and then organizing it into an intelligible format for the auditor.

(Palm Pictures founder) Chris Blackwell said to me 6 or 7 years ago that DVD doesn?t have to be a tombstone for creative content. He said (DVD) is such a great format that people will make content solely for DVD, and not just cheap franchise movies, but things that will extend the audio and visual arts.

I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel ù a camel being a horse built by committee.

I still make videos in my bedroom by choice because that's the feel of my comedy, but the opportunity to make longer format content with a production company, with a team that's a bit more elevated in that sense, is really exciting for me because it's not that it's better than what I've already been doing, but it's different.

I think we pretty much had birdies on every hole, ... This is a fun format because you can score really low if everyone is on. I know it was my first time out there and the first time out there for the amateurs in my group, but everyone was contributing and having a good time. It's just too bad we couldn't keep playing.

I was mediocre and I put Tiger in some tough spots. Certainly I enjoyed playing with Tiger and Retief and Adam but I just didn't play well. Your shortcomings show in the alternate shot format and playing with the best player in the world it showed today. I couldn't help Tiger at all.

The premium is for a way better format and to remind retailers that at the time we launched DVD, VHS was selling for $55 wholesale in the first window.

Unfortunately Woodbine Racetrack is not a venue that will be available for this year's sale, but we're thrilled to be able to offer the Canadian Open at a terrific facility like Country Heritage Park. We've been hosting the auction on Sundays in recent years, but a Wednesday format allows us to proceed with as little inconvenience as possible to horsemen and potential buyers.

We are committed to sharing our scientific studies with the public in the most comprehensive and understandable format possible. Issue experts are reviewing the fuel economy data and we look forward to providing a summary of the information next week.

I would love to win it and hope that this year will be my year. The 36-hole match-play format will be good preparation (for the Ryder Cup, which also is match play), and we will all be looking for some confidence.

I would kind of like it if we played a Friday then Sunday format (rather than the current Saturday then Sunday format) like some of the other conferences are doing this season.

Using the talk show format to promote products is far more contextually relevant for Amazon. It definitely makes sense. Certainly the popularity of that (format) offline, bringing that online could bode well.

The amazing immersive quality of IMAX 3-D will give moviegoers an opportunity to experience the first full-length animated motion picture from Sony Pictures Animation in a very special way. This is a format that has proven especially successful with family features, and the Imax theatre network helps generate incremental revenue for event titles such as Open Season. We are pleased to be an important part of Imax's 2006 lineup.

We need to stick as close to this as possible and the community panel should be chosen by the school board. Maybe we have to tune it up here and there, but it is a good format to follow.

Mike came in this morning like he did (Wednesday). He scripted the practice, he set the format for practice, the schedule times. He reviewed Wednesday's (practice) film, met with the offense, and went over the corrections of Wednesday's film.

While a high-definition video format does bring benefits over today's standard-definition discs, in movies as in music consumers are moving beyond shiny discs.

We've made significant changes, not so much in the format but in the approach and in the style of the evening news, and I feel like we're just in the beginning of the process.

We've got our work cut out for us in Seattle, ... This format is when you lose the home game first, it's just a bear. But that's not to say that (a turnaround and winning the series) can't be done.

We really value the type of business that Pacific Sales is today. At this time, we're pretty interested in preserving and learning that model....Our goal would be to eventually expand that format as a free-standing format.

We have revised our testing policy from earlier in the off-season based on the commitment from Honda to serve as the league's single-engine supplier. This testing format brings more efficiency to the teams, Honda and the league as we ready ourselves for the 2006 season, the league's first featuring its compacted schedule.

We've shipped a version of Office 2003 with an open format and we've expressed more commitment to the approach in our next Office releases. We feel that we're not being given enough of an opportunity to explain how openness is possible.

We have plans for other weekends to set bridge beams. We anticipate following the same type of format with the overnight closures.

We decided on the relay format to help the kids stay in shape and it will hopefully prepare us for the upcoming region meet. It will be a good meet for us from a conditioning standpoint.

We deal with Internet standards that are open. Why should birth certificates be recorded in a format for which any one company has the key?

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

We use this less-conservative format to celebrate the successes and to thank businesses for their investment in the economic development of our community.

We are going to try a new format this year. In addition to having the opening ceremonies where we announce the teams and the players, we will have a few scrimmages going on, similar to the Jamboree format, so that people can see their teams in action.

We still believe a single format would be less confusing and more efficient for retailers.

We're not thinking of it in terms of a show; we're thinking of it as a project that will include several different aspects. The idea is to take the style and format and attention to substance that public radio journalism brings to coverage of daily news events and apply it specifically to Texas music, and do it in a more consistent, focused way than it's been done before.

We began the process of saying, 'The great comic book material should be published in book format and kept in print perpetually.

We were actually doing quite well with the contemporary format, but Clear Channel launched the new variety format two years ago and it's just been a remarkable success.

The default format for Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 12 will be completely open, meaning you aren't tied into Microsoft software to access your files.

XML will provide a common format to share information with our suppliers and customers,

What it comes down to is it really is a love-hate relationship. Certainly, would the labels like to have more control over pricing? Absolutely. Would they like to have more influence on format availability? Absolutely.