How To Write A Formal Quotes

#1. The world is always full of promise.

Iris Apfel

#2. Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

Esther Perel

#3. You're the reason I breathe

Darynda Jones

#4. I don't want one play to define me as a player.

Malcolm Butler

#5. As a child who grew up in a grassy field, enjoying little formal education, I know virtually nothing about literary theories and have had to rely solely upon my own experiences and intuitive understanding of the world to write.

Mo Yan

#6. He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.

Ford Madox Ford

#7. "You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

Charles Dickens

#8. Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will argue that 'try and' has won through and become idiom. Indeed it has, and it is relaxed and acceptable. But 'try to' is precise, and when you are writing formal prose, try and write 'try to.

William Strunk Jr.

#9. Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

Erin O'Connor

#10. Unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.

Peace Pilgrim

#12. Every child should be taught how to think, read and write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

Christopher Morley

#14. All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

Gilles Marini

#15. There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.

James Frey

#16. My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

Alan Garner

#17. But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing ... though the Mac had no formal testing.

Andy Hertzfeld

#18. Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street

Richard Bachman

#19. I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.

Richard Aldington

#20. I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#21. I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

Joyce Carol Oates

#22. Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.

Fran Lebowitz

#23. Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.

Ann Goldstein

#24. Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

Levy Mwanawasa