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
“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
The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. — Alexei Navalny 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
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 reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private.… — Wendell Berry 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
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
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
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
Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill. — Jim Highsmith Copy Share Image
The summit is the mere formality, the ceremonial demonstration of what was agreed to long ago, weeks, months before the summit. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
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
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind… — Elizabeth Bowen 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 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
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
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
The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
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