Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

The formal education that I received made little sense to me. — Twyla Tharp
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description,… — Twyla Tharp
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. — Stephen Vizinczey
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has… — George Washington
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew… — Alexander Wang
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward… — Alfred North Whitehead
Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. — Susan Wojcicki
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present… — Nawal El Saadawi
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let… — Jon Krakauer
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. — Maya Angelou
Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion. — Jeff Lindsay
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? — Pearl S. Buck
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that… — Marquis de Sade
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. — Murray Rothbard
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. — Doris Lessing
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with… — Ilona Andrews
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to… — Timothy B. Tyson
But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes… — Edith Wharton
What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We put on formal… — Vera Nazarian
Writing is like paying myself a formal visit… — Fernando Pessoa
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has… — J M Coetzee

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