Formal Quotes

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that.
It could be someone important.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

I think the time of the formal dinners is over.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

My father had very little formal education.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

Words are cold and formal things.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

Formal art is essentially rational.

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

After love a formal feeling comes.

This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.