Formal Quotes

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

I think the time of the formal dinners is over.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

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

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

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

My father had very little formal education.

I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

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

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