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Quotes About Formal

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
That's right. Arithmetic as a formal system is inconsistent.
~ Ted Chiang
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
~ Noam Chomsky
I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.
~ Stephen Colbert
In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
~ Felix Bloch
If the E.U. formally becomes a union of different speeds it would in effect be formally divided into better and worse members and it would to a large extent lose its attractiveness for those countries that were deemed second class.
~ Andrzej Duda
I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
~ Bill Nighy
She smiled. I need your opinion, she said. What do you think about something sleeveless for this weekend? With a cinched waist and a medium train? I brought my hand to my chin and considered this. Sounds okay, I said. But I think I'd look better in a tuxedo.
~ Nicholas Sparks
With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on a 'total ban' of Muslims entering the United States.
~ Ben Rhodes
The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.
~ Hillary Clinton
Nigel was smiling, the bloody sod. He was loving playing the formal English butler, watching Nicholas turn red and tongue-tied. He saw Mike was grinning, quite enjoying herself. "Oh, bugger off, both of you." He stomped up the stairs, the sound of Mike's and Nigel's laughter following him.
~ Catherine Coulter
Given this history, it is certainly hard to fathom something as dispersed, decentralized, and virtual as the Internet being a learning institution in any way comparable to, say, Oxford. We know, given these long histories, what a learning institution is-or we think we do. But what happens when, rivaling formal educational systems, there are also many
~ Cathy N. Davidson
the key point is this: with or without a formal training in anthropology, we all do need to think about the cultural patterns and classification systems that we use. If we do, we can master our silos. If we do not, they will master us.
~ Gillian Tett
There were barbs on the words, his formal address. I endured them in silence and watched him go, leaving me alone with the remorseless pleasure of my pain.
~ Jacqueline Carey
An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
~ Harold Geneen
You gotta have a pocket square, I think.
~ Ric Flair
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
~ Aphra Behn
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
~ Alec Baldwin
I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.
~ Graydon Carter
Developing formal tools capable of integrating this missing cipher—absential influence—into the fabric of the natural sciences is an enterprise that should be at the center of scientific and philosophical debate.
~ Terrence W. Deacon
When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There's a certain elegance to it all and I like that.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
The three major Allied powers finally issued their first formal protest against Nazi crimes against Jews on December 17, 1942.
~ Christopher Simpson
Meanwhile, Milo had been in the Senate on that day until it was dismissed and then came home. He changed out of his formal clothes, waited for a little while his wife got herself ready--you all know how that goes-- and set out at the hour when Clodius, if he had been planning on coming back to Rome that day, would have returned.
~ Cicero