Informal Quotations

I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.

I was so surprised at how informal and funny he was.

I would encourage parents who are considering private tutors to have the tutor know what is expected in the student's school and to have some sort of informal assessment.

When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.

I have had a nice 10 years. I will see what happens from here. I may take a year off. I have had informal offers for coaching.

So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

Certainly it's not just a visual experience - it's an emotional one. In an informal way I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive to words and disoriented and out of it. I think that recognition of visual art can be very deep.

Business casual may work in many environments, but in the trades, informal dress doesn't open many doors to new business. Better appearance can.

He was extremely popular. His approach is very informal the staff loved it.

There is an informal network of people helping each out in poor communities. They have great survival skills. The difference is that, in a poor community, that disaster wipes out that informal safety net.

I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

Over the years, I have visited manufacturing sites where AGOA is working, and seen job creation first-hand. And, as anyone who knows Africa is aware; one formal sector job often supports an extended family. Formal sector jobs also support many informal sector jobs. In sum, AGOA has benefited millions of Africans. Without it, there would be far fewer jobs in several very poor African countries, period. They would be in China and elsewhere, especially the apparel jobs,

Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely so we were aware of the potential for a strike for many months. As a result we had been having informal conversations with Penn transportation personnel for well over two months in preparation for how we would respond.

I think it is very important that we understand that these are informal discussions,

We have had informal complaints, and we are using our time now to look at them. We're not going to wait and do nothing.

We have replaced the informal knowledge sources with people who are pretty savvy with how the enterprise works.

We have received feedback from employees both formally through requests for time off as well as through some informal channels that there was a lot of interest in participating in whatever event might be scheduled.

We're an informal group that meets and discusses genealogy and we try to get through road blocks by talking together.

The project is aimed at alleviating the housing problems of the surrounding suburbs as well as the Kathrada Park informal settlement, but in a systematic and orderly manner.

We disagree with the substance and characterization of the alleged violations. We'll be seeking an informal settlement conference with the agency to resolve these differences.

The reason why I think we see this increase, today it's a more informal world; we're a friendlier world, perhaps, and people like to feel I think a connection.

We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may be an expectation that you should gossip: you're obligated to tell, like an informal version of the honor code at military academies,

What happens when you push the old guys out and put the young guys on the bench? These guys aren't getting a formal education or an informal education. The older guys are getting pushed out for the younger guys, but there's no one to teach them how to carry themselves.

We're aware of the issue and are looking into it. There have been a few informal opinion requests.

Through informal discussions two or three months ago, I thought it was premature with all the work I was doing in Christina and it didn't feel right,

Criteria for inclusion differ, of course, as do the technologies recognized, but all companies share the following: Each has helped to create a market, redefine one or enhance one, and all of them demonstrate the capacity for customer-driven agile innovation. Compilation of the list is a year-long, collaborative but informal process with vendors, analysts and colleagues.

Core inflation remains contained in November, albeit at the upper end of the ( Federal Reserve 's) informal target range of one-two percent.

Core inflation remains contained in November, albeit at the upper end of the Feds informal target range of 1-2 pct.

There have been high-level, informal discussions over the last week, face-to-face discussions.

Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.

Is there interest? Absolutely. Just from informal conversations we've had with people, there's a lot of interest in our project and Ellicottville in general.

The survey is intended to give informal feedback and not be heavy-handed. It is to recognize efforts already in place through positive reinforcement.

What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange.

The workers are going to be more concerned than anyone else if there is informal activity taking place.

We are taking a close interest in the situation. There has been informal contact with the Polish authorities in the past few months.

Actually, many years ago, we had a company-wide vote for our informal company-wide mascot, and the choices came down to the Boston tree fern, beef tape worm and a llama. And somehow the llama won the vote!

We are excited to have John attend the event, ... It gives local people an opportunity to meet him in an informal setting and getting to know John is getting to appreciate what an outstanding premier he can be for our province.

A male, aged between 30 and 40-years-old was reported to be floating in a river in Ivory Park by an eyewitness from an informal settlement.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

There's some informal discussions among staff going on and a bunch of research being done by both sides. I don't think it will be too long before we start. I'm not really sure we'll have some sort of a formal opening like the auto workers with a big picture. We're still quite a ways from contract expiration.

This is definitely very bad news, ... Until now, we had given the company's management the benefit of the doubt with respect to certain franchise-acquisition activities. We believe that the SEC's decision indicates that, for some reason, cooperation between the company and the agency in the preceding informal investigation broke down, leading the commission to seek the greater legal powers of a formal investigation.

This is definitely very bad news. Until now, we had given the company's management the benefit of the doubt with respect to certain franchise-acquisition activities. We believe that the SEC's decision indicates that, for some reason, cooperation between the company and the agency in the preceding informal investigation broke down, leading the commission to seek the greater legal powers of a formal investigation.

In China, there's no such thing as an informal meeting. We had meetings where they rolled out the red carpet, literally. Everybody has name cards, there's a sequence of who speaks when, there are large banners and flowers. That's just the way they do things, very formal.

Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are

I'm overseeing the exhibits program and starting from scratch to build an education program, so that we have a formal and informal education program available,

In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

This is a very casual, informal process that doesn't allow public comment, environmental analysis and doesn't consider conflicts with other uses,

In 1938, Lloyd Anderson and some of his climbing buddies here in the Northwest were hard-pressed to find ice axes that met their quality needs and would perform well for them in the field. And so, they pooled their money and sent off to Europe for a purchase of ice axes, and from that informal buying-club beginning sprang REI.

In the past, product placements were negotiated in a somewhat informal way. What Maven Strategies has done is to really codify the relationship and create a structure for how much people get paid. That's one of the holy grails for product placement - to really work out what it is worth.

I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.

I don't know if Seattle had the assets or the queer community to make it a reality. There was an informal need but it wasn't the right time.

There, that's informal incentives going on. We're seeing, incidentally, some of the 11th-graders talking to their 10th-grade friends.

An informal discussion that was merely a waste of time took place. The Security Council has more important issues to deal with.

Sometimes informality breeds rudeness. Maybe companies that are very informal manage to keep stress levels down. But if it's very informal, workers might not know what their boundaries are.

The informal opposition towards President Slobodan Milosevic's government I think is very strong. In terms of organized opposition, we will see. This is the major test that we, the opposition leaders, will have to pass. It is up to us to persuade these people that we can make a difference.

The currency is the sovereignty of China. We believe it best to have informal discussions than have any external pressure that might have counter-effects.

The dorm provides students with an opportunity to use language in an informal setting outside the classroom it's like an ongoing German class.

The district has not received any formal or informal response to that last proposal.

It's not the job of police to play formal or informal censor.

It's almost a policy of apartheid, in a sense, informal apartheid.

It's sort of an informal kind of prank the members have with one another.

It's not an informal occasion, with the children popping their heads around the corner saying, 'mum, can I join you?' the Queen will send her page with a message to invite them.

There was some informal discussion of timing for a vote in the United Nations on establishing a direct global tax by imposing a 10-cents-a-barrel levy on oil at the well-head. This is important to the Bilderberg goal of establishing the UN as a formal world government. Such a direct tax on individuals is symbolically important. Bilderberg's global tax proposal has been pending before the UN for three years but the issue has been blacked out by the Bilderberg-controlled US media.

It's a difficult piece of property to categorize with single-family zoning and steep banks abutting railroad tracks and industry, with park property across the street. We've had informal discussions with a developer who might want to do something there with multiple-family zoning.

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.