logo

Quotes About Formal

I'm secretly very stuffy.
~ Peter Falk
Every man needs a pair of smart shoes.
~ Nandita Mahtani
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
~ Philip Emeagwali
United States ranked No. 25 on international comparative tests. In Finland, which ranked No. 1, children don't start formal schooling until they're 7 years old,
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Leadership is not equivalent to office-holding or high prestige or authority or decision-making. It is not helpful to identify leadership with whatever is done by people in high places. The activity we have in mind may or may not be engaged in by those who are formally in positions of authority. This is inescapable if we are to develop a theory that will be useful in diagnosing cases of inadequate leadership on the part of persons in authority.
~ Philip Selznick
Just to get cufflinks on my shirt is a challenge.
~ Jon Gruden
Love as content is in the habit of limiting formal patterns. The same goes for faith. After all, there are only so many adequate manifestations for truly strong sentiments; which, in the end, is what explains rituals.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Justin Timberlake is one of our style icons - he does both formal and casual perfectly.
~ Jonathan Scott
It's perfectly acceptable to wear a short dress to formal occasions.
~ Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
In the cafe there was a lot of stylized cattiness, but this was never unkindly meant. Nothing at all was meant by it. It was a formal game of innuendos about other people being older than they said, about their teeth being false and their hair being a wig. Such conversation was thought to be smart and so very feminine. It was better, I need hardly say, to seem like a truly appalling woman than not like a woman at all.
~ Quentin Crisp
Perhaps "camp" is set in the 'twenties because after that differences between the sexes - especially visible differences - began to fade. This, of course, has never mattered to women in the least. They know they are women. To homosexuals, who must, with every breath they draw, with every step they take, demonstrate that they are feminine, it is frustrating. They look back in sorrow to that more formal era and try to relive it.
~ Quentin Crisp
He spoke a refine and formal kind of English, that did not seem wholly natural as though at some point it had been applied to him carefully with a brush, like paint.
~ Rachel Cusk
When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.
~ Chip Gaines
People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.
~ Ted Allen
I hated sport, but at 13, I went to an aerobics class and the teacher thought I had natural rhythm. She suggested formal dance classes, and that's when I finally found something I was really good at.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
A guy in a mustache looks best dressed up in a suit. A track suit and mustache won't help your look. You need to look groomed and polished.
~ Kayleen Schaefer
If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
~ Taron Egerton
I love getting dressed up in a suit because I don't do it all the time.
~ Jason Statham
I don't ever have the opportunity to wear a suit.
~ George Stroumboulopoulos
I love a good suit.
~ Martin Freeman
Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.
~ Michael Pitt
I don't normally like getting dressed up, but when I go to events, I like to look put together. I've got to say, getting in a nice suit feels good.
~ Paul Dano
We spend a lot of time on Skype and other video interviews, and it's funny how many people will prepare for a Skype interview by wearing a formal suit jacket with pajama pants on the bottom. Then suddenly, someone is at the door, and you have to get up, and you realize you're wearing reindeer boxers. Just put pants on.
~ Kathryn Minshew
As soon as I had the opportunity to wear a suit, I took it, like when I was at sixth form and had to dress smartly, I couldn't wait to get a suit on. I've always loved dressing up.
~ Sam Fender