Formal Quotes

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

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

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

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

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

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.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look for patterns, and then I post questions back to my network.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

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

Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

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

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

With self-discipline, all things are possible

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, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

I want a formal apology from the mayor.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.