Quotes About Formal

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

Later, William Stoner could not remember how he learned these things, that first afternoon and early evening at Josiah Claremont's house; for the time of his meeting was blurred and formal, like the figured tapestry on the stair wall off the foyer.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.

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

If ever a man existed who had every right to be puffed up with his own conceit, Rosellen thought, it was Wynn in evening clothes.

I don't really know how to do casual clothes.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

I never had any formal voice training, but it's something I always wanted to do. 'So I negotiated a deal with a recording studio after I gathered enough material for a record. I put a group together and just went ahead and did it. What the hell.

I always dress up for recordings.

You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.

I think a letter is more ceremonial than anything. Personally, I think it's just a reason to go talk to the referee.

When I do wear heels, I prefer to only wear them to dinner, where I'll be sitting down most of the time.

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.

There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas and passion of a late Beethoven string quartet, or for that matter the beautiful mellifluous poetry of a Chopin Ballade.

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

I do wear suits all the time.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

so that his formal appointment, made on 9 January 1919, was that of Secretary of State for War and Air. He

Logika doprowadzi? mo?e jedynie do formalnej prawdy, nie za? materialnej.

You do not imagine that a mere matter of etiquette could foil you. But the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded.

the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded. In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones.

She moved through formal receptions, theater parties, dinners, dances—gracious and smiling, a smile that made her face brighter and colder, like the sun on a winter day.