In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know? — Noah Emmerich Copy Share Image
“The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill. — Jim Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.” — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven’t gotten around to… — P.J. Tracy Copy Share Image
I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after:… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end… — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp...… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“Both formality and dinner forgotten we sat on the floor of the little library, choosing. Sometimes Dr Portman read passages aloud and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed,… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a… — Waris Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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