Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Morris

We really need to understand what's happened and what steps have been taken to rectify problems. In one of those incidents where an outage has occurred, there really needs to be a formal communications strategy put in place. We really need to be kept informed.

If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,

James Gray

His work, though formal and precise, displays an exceptional understanding of the limits and uses of formalism and precision.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

We don't have any formal motto this year.

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

We're acknowledging that a mistake was made on the play. We don't have a formal statement on it.

Nina Garcia

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where I could be myself and did not need to don a mask.

There are a variety of ways of assessing kids' skills that aren't necessarily a formal assessment.

Upon receipt of the formal filing, CFIUS will move promptly to initiate the review process and fulfill D.P. World's request for a 45-day investigation.

Trent Reznor

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

David Carradine

I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

A. N. Wilson

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

Nimrat Kaur

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

Lawrence Summers

We are not contemplating formal requests from any other country,

Mike Berry

It is a formality that the new application will be rejected as Jason doesn't meet the criteria, so it will go straight to a review panel.

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Somebody could be in police work for umpteen years and doesn't have the formal side of the training, yet is very qualified to hold the job. This would be a way of tying the two together in a way that is fair.

Solidarity members joined in at midnight. There are no formal offers at this point.

There are people who think this is a more formal place, for holidays.

Samantha Harvey

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

Debi Mazar

Lunch is formal - that's when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day with the kids at seven o' clock.

Hillary Clinton

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.

Preity Zinta

As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.

Any big corporation, no matter how enlightened, needs some place that people can turn to outside of the formal processes where they can get their problems solved.

DOJ (Department of Justice) has told us repeatedly that there's a formal response working its way through red tape channels, but still nothing,

No, I see my role as very much being a support. But I won't have any formal role with the side.

They want a formal promise from Bush, but I think they will be disappointed.

David Copperfield

Marriage is like a formality for me.

There is no intention ... to undertake any formal restrictive measures that could hurt the population as a whole.

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.