Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

- Dee Dee Myers

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

- Jim Fowler

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

- Harrison Birtwistle

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

- Hypatia

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

- Hugh Laurie

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

- H. P. Lovecraft

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

- Edsger Dijkstra

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

- Dana Spiotta

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

- Delmore Schwartz

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

- Alain de Botton

My father had very little formal education.

- Daniel Berrigan

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

- Dylan Moran

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

- Ben Bernanke

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

- Al Purdy

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.

- Alberto Fujimori

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

- Alain Resnais

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

- Ambrose Bierce

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

- Alexander Wang

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

- Albert Einstein