Quotes of: Formal Keyword

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

Simon Hoggart

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

Scott Westerfeld

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

Martha Beck

The world is a merrier place to live if people do things more out of sincerity, not just out of formality.

Maggy San Jose-Baas

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Hjalmar Branting

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

Alexa Von Tobel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

Dan Gilroy

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

Gary Hamel

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Mark Strand

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Erma Bombeck

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Edward Sapir

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Francoise Sagan

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

Norman McLaren

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

Stolen

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

Such an Ibisian scene: both their faces were formal masks, their posture correct, pain kept inside where it cut deeper.

Voice of the Lost

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

Peter Diamandis

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

Stephanie Tubbs Jones