1.
[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that.
It could be someone important.
Queen Elizabeth II
2.
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.
Lee Iacocca
3.
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.
John Henrik Clarke
6.
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.
Dean Koontz
8.
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
Megan Fox
9.
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
Simon Doonan
10.
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
Murray Rothbard
11.
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.
Tony Hoare
12.
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.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
15.
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
David Knopfler
16.
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.
A. N. Wilson
17.
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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
18.
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
Leslie Caron
19.
I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
Al Purdy
20.
I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.
Ricky Martin
21.
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
Pearl S. Buck
22.
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
William Strunk, Jr.
23.
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.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
25.
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.
William Ernest Hocking
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By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.
Lewis Schiff
27.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan Perlis
28.
In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
Ben Bernanke
29.
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
Hillary Clinton
30.
Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.
Jeff Lindsay
32.
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.
Kola Boof
33.
Formal art is essentially rational.
Sol LeWitt
34.
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
May Sarton
35.
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
Alfred North Whitehead
37.
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?
Michael Ellsberg
38.
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.
George V. Higgins
39.
I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.
Michel Gondry
40.
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.
Donald Barthelme
41.
I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
Josh Lanyon
42.
There isn't a formal definition of success.
Ernest Sosa
43.
India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.
Arundhati Roy
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The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.
Immanuel Wallerstein