Formal Quotes

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. - Denis Johnson

You're going to hear a lot [of names]. There's probably going to be a laundry list, because there are a lot of people that [owners] consider qualified. That's what this is all about. And, sure, whether it's discussed in sessions or just informally in the hallways, it's the one thing that is going to dominate the week. - Tom Benson

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? - Tom A. Watson

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold. - Lennart Nilsson

You don't need any formal education to be a video game tester. Video game testers can get paid $9 to $80 an hour and get to keep the games you test. Anyone can become a game tester, all that is required is that you are 15 or older to get paid to play games. - Tim Foss

You all seem to forget that you work for me. This is a formality. I'm embarrassed to have you on my payroll, and offer a free steak dinner to anyone who thinks this tax won't pass. - Jamie King

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. - John McGahern

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. - Suzanne Vega