Formal Quotes · Page 5

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

— Dalai Lama

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.

— Alberto Gonzales

Hey guys this is my formal dress!!!! :D ahhh I'm in love with it!!!

— Nikki Marie

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight…

— Bill Nye

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

— Garry Winogrand

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

— Baker Brownell

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

— Robert Creeley

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a…

— Samuel Johnson

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs…

— Robert Gottlieb

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the…

— Gary Hamel

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will…

— Ian Hacking

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to…

— Anton Corbijn

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes…

— Eduardo Galeano

We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has…

— John L. Casti

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could…

— Anonymous

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty,…

— Dalai Lama

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that…

— Valerie Jarrett

Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you."…

— Lauren Oliver

[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg,…

— Jon Gordon

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble…

— Geronimo

Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of…

— David E. Cooper

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

— Jean Dubuffet

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

— Doris Lessing

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

— George Carlin

“Whether one is formally educated or self educated; the cornerstone of success is education.”

— Will Foster

I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.

— Haim Saban

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

— Bruce Pavitt

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

— Steve Waugh

I don't like concert-halls where everyone is sitting down and it's all very formal.

— Gary Moore

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

— June Squibb

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

— Kate DiCamillo

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

— Umberto Eco

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

— Bernard Beckett

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

— Anonymous