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Quotes About Formal

For a formal look, I wear saris, and certain occasions require a dressed up look. But wherever I can, I like being in something easy and casual.
~ Sonali Bendre
One can become quite proficient at this amiable patter; the trick is to omit the instructive parts when attending formal dinner parties outside the house. It would be a mistake for Miss Manners to provide you with a list of no-no's. It may never have occurred to your children to laugh with a mouthful of soup, for instance, or to discharge unappreciated salad ingredients into the napkin. Here, instead, are a few yes-yes's: Small
~ Judith Martin
One can become quite proficient at this amiable patter; the trick is to omit the instructive parts when attending formal dinner parties outside the house.
~ Judith Martin
Mother, I spoke to the duke. He understands that this is not a formal meal. And he specifically told me that he was looking forward to a change of pace. He has no family himself, so he has never experienced anything like a Bridgerton family dinner." "God help us." Violet's face went utterly pale.
~ Julia Quinn
Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.
~ Rajiv Menon
Harvard students rallied on campus to offer formal, but "cordial," congratulations to their fellow student, Robert T. Lincoln, son of the president-elect and newly dubbed—in honor of the Prince of Wales's recent triumphant American tour—the "Prince of Rails.
~ Harold Holzer
Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.
~ Harper Lee
Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.
~ Haruki Murakami
Strong networks of informal relationships—the kind found in companies with healthy cultures—help coordinate leadership activities in much the same way that formal structure coordinates managerial activities.
~ Harvard Business School Press
While loosening formal controls, companies should tighten interpersonal connections between innovation efforts and the rest of the business.
~ Harvard Business School Press
During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
~ Neal Schon
Britain in the 19th century was two things simultaneously; the hub of the largest empire on earth and the greatest manufacturing and trading nation the world had ever seen. Yet the formal empire and the trading empire were not the same thing.
~ David Olusoga
Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?
~ Neri Oxman
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
~ Leslie Caron
I have no formal culinary training, right.
~ Thomas Keller
If you are moving the informal economy into the formal economy, and if the transactions which for years were never reported as part of GDP are now transacted through banking channels, it will only add to the GDP, not reduce the GDP.
~ Piyush Goyal
I love a boot. It's an easy transition for all surroundings - not too casual, not too formal. You look like you're off to your engagement photos, even if you're going down to a pub with your friends afterward.
~ Tan France
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
~ Daniel Everett
I often quite forgot to look at the face which, surrounded by a collar high above them, was set impassively on top of an evening shirt or a glittering décolletage, a cold social mask.
~ Stefan Zweig
Darf ich mich vorstellen:
~ Michael Ende
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
~ Richard Serra
State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.
~ Dominic Raab
I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.
~ Leah Remini
Mr. Prime Minister," I say, standing alone on the driveway, my hand extended. "Mr. President." His expression implacable, his dark eyes peering into mine, he shakes my hand with an iron grip. He is dressed in a black suit and a tie that is a solid blue on the top half, red on the bottom, two-thirds of the Russian flag.
~ Bill Clinton