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Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion. — Eric Wareheim

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her. — Nimrat Kaur

I never knew what to say."
"Really? You seem comfortable enough with words."
"I have a formal and aesthetic relationship to words. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, — Idries Shah

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. — David Gries

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein

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

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

First date, it's always fun to go somewhere or do something, like go see a band ... not make it too formal. — Behati Prinsloo

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Howard Whitley Eves

The pilot, Wedge Antilles, once Red Leader and now - well, now something else, a role without a formal title, as yet, — Chuck Wendig

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

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

I felt like the girl who showed up at a formal dinner party in jeans and a Pink Floyd T-shirt. Probably 'cause I did that once. — Darynda Jones

I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak. — John Steinbeck

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica. — Matt Weber

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science. — Bernard Beckett

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges

when people lack concrete plans to carry out, they use formal rules to assemble a portfolio of various options. — Peter Thiel

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

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem. — Eva Hesse

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there. — Doreen Virtue

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so. — Hillary Clinton

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank. — Simon Sinek

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

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

I want a formal apology from the mayor. — Antonio Gonzalez

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

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context. — Kenneth Chenault

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. — Barney Frank

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

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics. — Robert A. Heinlein

A formal education will give you knowledge; self-education will give you wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. — Ezra Pound

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

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo. — Bill Nye

I photograph you every morning
In a cruel attempt to capture
A formal souvenir of what I love — Susan Rich

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. — John Newton

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. — Edward Hirsch

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. — William Penn

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another. — Elizabeth Eulberg

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. — Stephen Spender

Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John. — Dallin H. Oaks

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise. — Robert H. Jackson

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting

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

This was a boy who could make a school uniform look good. What he did to formal wear was damn near criminal. — Rachel Hawkins

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

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own. — Baker Brownell

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

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice. — Sara Zarr

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. — Elliott Erwitt

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. — Susan Wojcicki

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation. — TOOTS888

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist? — Johnny Carson

Web projects aren't done until I'm happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more. — Chris Milk

He handed me the keys. My hand closed over them. It felt like a formal investiture. — Charlaine Harris

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned. — Henry A. Kissinger

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world. — David Platt

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. — Thomas Paine

Formal education opens the world to you; contemplation and reflection open yourself to you. — Debasish Mridha

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

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H.P. Lovecraft

I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and partings. — Chris Priestley

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion. — Jeff Lindsay

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. — Richelle Mead

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself. — J.R. Rim

Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the
candy store. — Randy Allen Harris

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. — George Carlin

Death realigns roles according to a formal order of importance. — Paolo Giordano

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. — Robert A. Heinlein

I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity. — John Wayne

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it. — Mark Steyn

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type. — Jim Fowler

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up. — Stella Young

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. — Paula Abdul

Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes. — Harper Lee

You said a formal dinner was where we dress up!" explained the little boy behind the monkey mask. — Michael Kroft

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." — Ambrose Bierce

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry. — Julianna Baggott

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

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. — William Strunk Jr.

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. — A. N. Wilson

The kingdom of formal ideas will always be a weak neighbor to the kingdom of thrills — Tom Robbins

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius. — Chester Barnard

It was my first visit to the scene of the crime
a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close yet casual friendship. — Augusten Burroughs

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. — Ray Kroc

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. — Albert Einstein

And that's when I knew she was not doing this on purpose; that her stories came from a place deep within her, beyond thought and formal language. — Clara Chow