Quotes About Formal

For what is more formal than a family dinner? An official occasion of uncomfortable people Who meet very seldom, making conversation.

Where music survives in formal education, it has of necessity shifted its focus over the last generation to mirror everyday culture rather than to reflect upon it. One

The moon has withdrawn behind a kicho of mist. Must she be so formal? Are others, elsewhere, welcomed in behind her screen as ardent lovers? I am jealous.

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

I wear everything to jeans and a t-shirt to Zac Posen ball gowns.

They squared this circle by creating a set of usufructuary (usage) rights that could be bought, sold, mortgaged, or transferred, in which the state nonetheless retained formal ownership.

le fait que toute manifestation formelle implique des limites qui contribueront indirectement à sa fin, n'est pas une raison suffisante pour qu'une tradition ne se manifeste pas ; la parole du Christ : « Celui qui frappe par l'épée, périra par l'épée » est d'une portée universelle : celui qui affirme, périra par l'affirmation.

Well," Waxillium said. "Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health." "Perhaps you should," Steris replied. "Er. Yes. How's your health?" "Suitable." "So is Waxillium," Wayne added. They all turned to him. "You know," he said. "He's wearing a suit, and all. Suitable. Ahem. Is that mahogany?

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Madame de Cintre's face had, to Newman's eye, a range of expression as delightfully vast as the wind-streaked, cloud-flecked distance on a Western prairie. But her mother's white, intense, respectable countenance, with its formal gaze, and its circumscribed smile, suggested a document signed and sealed; a thing of parchment, ink, and ruled lines.

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree onto a lawnmower below, the edges of this 'thing' have a certain serendipity.

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.

were hitched at mangers filled with hay. Strapped to the flanks of each horse was a table. Guests, in formal riding attire, mounted their assigned horses and were served course after course of food by waiters dressed as grooms. From the shoulders of each horse, meanwhile, were slung two saddlebags, each filled with ice and bottles of champagne. As they dined, the guests sipped champagne through

Often some of the most gifted boys have the most trouble in formal educational settings

If I am going to a party at a friend's place, I wear jeans with ethnic kurtis. And if it's a semi-formal occasion, then I would wear a skirt and a jacket.

You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.

The way I grew up, I had hippie parents, and we would run around the garden with no shoes on, very close to nature. So I never wore little princess dresses. I still have this feeling whenever I wear a very formal dress; I always have this slight fear that people will point their fingers at me and laugh: 'Vicky is trying to look like a lady.'

I normally wear jeans and sneakers, but given an occasion, I enjoy dressing up.

Formal is formal. I can't wear sneakers all the time. Sometimes, I wear other shoes. It's not my challenge designing formal - it's so boring - but it's still important. I sell a lot of classic black sneakers made from every material because everyone loves black, and if you mix and match material, you get an opera.

The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.

I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.