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Quotes About Formal

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
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
~ Anne Enright
we start formal organizations when it's cheaper than leading a tribe instead. Having employees, for example, gives you a tight interaction of communication and output that used to be difficult to accomplish from a less formal tribe.
~ Seth Godin
I believe the term you're searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I've discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.
~ Kami Garcia
The wild-often dismissed as savage and chaotic by civilized thinkers, is actually impartially, relentlessly, and beautifully formal and free. Its expression-the richness of plant and animal life on the globe including us, the rainstorms, windstorms, and calm spring mornings-is the real world, to which we belong.
~ Gary Snyder
In general, classificatory work practices involve politics, kinds of both prototypical and Aristotelian classifications, and deletion of the practices in the production of' the final formal record.
~ Geoffrey C. Bowker
Justin Timberlake - I'd like to learn a little more about his suit and tie.
~ Priyanka Chopra
An ascot is never a substitute for a well-tied four-in-hand tie or a slightly disheveled bow tie.
~ Roger Stone
What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie.
~ Timothy Olyphant
And learn to tie a bow - it's not difficult and there's no excuse for either a clip-on or the hideous Hollywood straight tie.
~ A. A. Gill
I think with black tie, you can't really do too much. I think you have to pretty much stick to the rules on that.
~ Nick Wooster
The only thing I knew would make my grandmother more proud than watching my TV courtroom was to see me dressed up in white tie doing the foxtrot.
~ Robert Rinder
I went to a public school, so we didn't have to wear a tie.
~ Steve Kornacki
I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.
~ Jamie Oliver
I don't know what it is about bow ties, but I love a good bow tie on a man.
~ Becca Kufrin
For me as the founder, it was shocking to see how having a more formal structure with lines of reporting and processes can so easily start to disconnect you from the customer.
~ Sahar Hashemi
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
~ John Newton
I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kind of be more dressed up more of the time. I'm not really someone you see in sweatpants a lot.
~ Aly Raisman
In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.
~ Russell Westbrook
Gathered round the bucket of coke that burned in front of the shelter, several figures were swinging arms against bodies and rubbing hands together with large, pantomimic gestures: like comedians giving formal expression to the concept of extreme cold.
~ Anthony Powell
Ésa era la respuesta formal; después de escucharla con tanta frecuencia, perdía todo sentido, reducida a una secuencia de sonidos sin significado especial.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The described gathering of nations could only have application to two nations, if the meaning is, at it appears, that the world's nations gather in order to meet with each other in a formal, deliberative sense, not just a commercial or social sense. This is reasonable, in that all nations engage in trade with other nations.
~ John Price