Formal Quotes · Page 6

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

— Jeff Lindsay

Opera requires singers with exceptional talent and years of rigorous, formal training.

— Jackie Fuchs

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

— Anonymous

Justin Timberlake is one of our style icons - he does both formal and casual perfectly.

— Jonathan Scott

“The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.”

— Muriel Barbery

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that…

— Eva Hesse

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

— Ben Bernanke

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

— Barney Frank

You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting…

— Paul Feig

When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was…

— Peter Medawar

“You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of…

— Steven Magee

I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help…

— Barack Obama

I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room…

— Biz Stone

I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist,…

— Glenn Beck

Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or…

— Jeaniene Frost

Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once…

— Barack Obama

[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even…

— Julian Assange

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather…

— Lapo Elkann

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity…

— Greil Marcus

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it…

— Roland Barthes

Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have…

— Hans Hofmann

I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would…

— David Bezmozgis

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

— Hypatia of Alexandria

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

— Alain Resnais

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

— Johnny Carson

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

— Lewis Schiff

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at…

— Ozwald Boateng

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

— Marshall McLuhan

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

— William Penn

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

— Stephen Spender

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

— Luigi Ghirri

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

— Robert Lowell

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his…

— Dee Dee Myers

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

— Emily Dickinson

You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.

— Jeff Foxworthy

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

— Anonymous

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

— Hugh Laurie

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

— Huey Lewis