Formal Quotes · Page 3

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

— David Gries

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I think the time of the formal dinners is over.

— Wolfgang Puck

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

— Megan Fox

“Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.”

— Toba Beta

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

— Al Purdy

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

— Julianna Baggott

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal,…

— Iggy Pop

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

— Melissa Gilbert

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and…

— Paula Abdul

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

— Hilda Doolittle

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

— Manolo Blahnik

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

— William Strunk, Jr

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

— Delmore Schwartz

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not…

— Vikas Swarup

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to…

— Maximillian Degenerez

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing…

— Walter Crane

I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege,…

— Amanda Hocking

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common…

— Cesare Pavese

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on…

— John Dingell

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was…

— A. N. Wilson

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team…

— Andy Hertzfeld

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to…

— Winston Churchill

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits…

— Aaron Siskind

We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed…

— Allen Ginsberg

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going…

— John Green

We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it.…

— Parker J. Palmer

In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters." These people,…

— Edward Said

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

— Kenneth Chenault

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

— Noam Chomsky

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

— Muhammad

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

— Louis de Montfort

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

— Robert H. Jackson

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

— Sharon Salzberg

Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion.

— Eric Wareheim

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

— Tiger Shroff

It's perfectly acceptable to wear a short dress to formal occasions.

— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff