Top 100 Formula Quotes
#1. Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
Seth MacFarlane
#3. Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
Dan Simmons
#4. Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater
#5. I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
Eddie Van Halen
#6. I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
Maggie Nelson
#7. It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
Mario Andretti
#8. where creativity doesn't drive a company's strategic vision, most often the lowest price will be the winning formula. Success, abundance, a rising standard of living-for individuals, companies, communities, nations-will depend on a capacity to create, invent, and innovate.
Peter Georgescu
#9. I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
Auguste Laurent
#10. as the Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6
Jack R. Hart
#11. Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.
Paul Halmos
#12. I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with brands. We have a real winning formula when it comes to championing a different kind of movie, and I think the audience trusts us.
Harvey Weinstein
#13. I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.
Jenson Button
#14. Every time someone gives you a formula for what you should be and what you should do, you should know they're giving you a pair of handcuffs.
Junot Diaz
#15. There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.
Reuven Rivlin
#16. Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. Why then had I heard nothing? Everyone knows that the killing of a human being requires the exertion of a certain amount of mechanical energy. I forget the exact formula, although I know there is one.
Alan Bradley
#18. My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.
Steve Nash
#19. Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Vivienne Westwood
#20. We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
Peter Greenaway
#21. I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."
Joss Whedon
#22. We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
Roy Barnes
#23. If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.
Joel Greenblatt
#24. Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes
#25. Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
William Bernbach
#26. I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
Bill Gates
#27. The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.
Sathya Sai Baba
#28. Hard work and training. There's no secret formula.
Ronnie Coleman
#29. What was happening to him? - he wondered. The impossible conflict of feeling reluctance to do that which was right - wasn't it the basic formula of moral corruption? To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference.
Ayn Rand
#30. Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray ... Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.
John Climacus
#31. When it comes to yourself, follow God's formula-
deny yourself of overindulgence (Proverbs 23:2 and 30:8),
examine yourself for any sinful habits (1 Corinthians 11:28),
% exercise yourself to godliness (1 Timothy 4:7), and
IK- develop self-control (Galatians 5:23).
Elizabeth George
#32. My formula for happiness is to have no formula for happiness.
Marty Rubin
#33. Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
Jet Li
#34. There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
Landon Donovan
#35. My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
Michael Carbonaro
#36. And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.
Murray Walker
#37. Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
Robert Kennedy
#38. This life is not about getting it right
It's about taking the steps that will
show who you are
There is no prescribed formula
Just try and figure it out with every step
Malebo Sephodi
#39. And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
Terrence Howard
#40. I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.
Jessie Cave
#41. The formula for a great story includes both the ups and downs of life.
Lisa Y. Potocar
#43. After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.
Pastor Maldonado
#44. The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
Carla Hall
#45. I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
J. D. Souther
#46. There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.
Michelle Yeoh
#47. I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past.
Sam Bird
#48. Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#49. I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.
Platon
#50. Formula 1 will always have high and strong investment. Who can't make these investments will race in other series.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#51. The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.
Jim Rohn
#52. Tengo has an innate knack for precision in all realms, including correct punctuation and discovering the simplest possible formula necessary to solve a math problem.
Haruki Murakami
#53. The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn't leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.
Scott Hammerle
#54. For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.
Northrop Frye
#55. The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.
Jenson Button
#56. Daring in design, cautious in execution - it was a formula he made his own throughout his career.
Ron Chernow
#57. The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound ... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.
Dick Biondi
#58. I agree," said Blazing Night. "I'm working on the formula to get the money from the rich folk and do it fast. It's not easy, do you know how?
J.M.K. Walkow
#59. I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.
Thierry Boutsen
#60. My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.
William S. Burroughs
#61. It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
Steve Backley
#62. Mitch had a particular way with women - a formula of giving and withholding that almost always managed to hook them. Getting them to talk about themselves was the first step; remaining enigmatic was the second. There were other steps, but he used only the first two during that encounter.
Lisa Lutz
#63. Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery.
Martin Buber
#64. I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success.
Katrina Kaif
#65. I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Bill Griffith
#66. God can't be squashed into any formula or confined to a narrow explanation, and he doesn't want our dreams to be small and manageable either. He is a God who blasts through all human boundaries.
Kasey Van Norman
#67. Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.
Daniel Pinkwater
#69. I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
Margot Kidder
#70. A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?
Niki Lauda
#71. Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.
Gloria Steinem
#72. This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.
Aleister Crowley
#73. Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unforeseeability of the future.
Brian Boyd
#74. But above all things was it a return to Nature - that formula which seems to suit so many and such diverse movements: they would draw and paint nothing but what they saw, they would try and imagine things as they really happened.
Oscar Wilde
#75. I think taking the biggest star in India and the biggest star in America, and putting them together in a movie that starts in America and ends up in India, or starts in India and goes to America. I think it would be a buddy cop formula.
Brett Ratner
#76. You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, 'That plus that equals success.'
Michelle Yeoh
#77. The American Academy of Pediatrics officially supports breastfeeding, but receives about half a million dollars from Ross, manufacturers of Similac infant formula.
Ben Goldacre
#78. When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.
Suzanne Selfors
#79. I still don't know how to live my life except on my haunches at the feet of Jesus, eyes fixed on his face. Nothing else "works." No formula, no method makes me feel so fully human and alive as the radical act of living loved.
Sarah Bessey
#80. I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.
Leo McCarey
#81. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Arthur Rubinstein
#82. When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.
Heikki Kovalainen
#83. I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.
Chris Daughtry
#84. If you have assigned any names to the Columns, by pressing F3 all the names will get displayed. Extremely useful when you are entering a formula, you can press this shortcut and all the defined names will be displayed.
Vijay Kumar
#85. It's a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.
Gudjon Bergmann
#86. I think that some people still think that the formula other than gospel still is not strong enough to get that crossover appeal to people enough that they would play it all the time, or nonchurch people would accept it, but I disagree.
Andrae Crouch
#87. Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.
Gloria Swanson
#88. To create a minor 7 chord we add a b7 to a minor triad. The formula is 1 b3 5 b7.
Joseph Alexander
#89. A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
Malin Akerman
#90. The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Auguste Comte
#91. Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.
Billy Graham
#92. Prayerize, visualize, actualize - that is the formula for successful imaging.
Norman Vincent Peale
#93. Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
Helen Frankenthaler
#94. Formula One is a mind game, no question. You have to think so hard sometimes smoke comes out your ears! And if you don't keep your head in gear the car will overtake you
Mika Hakkinen
#95. If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.
Nick Woodman
#96. Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.
Michael Vanderbyl
#97. You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.
Neale Donald Walsch
#98. The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff - just like a joke. The
Anne Lamott
#99. I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.
Greg Lake
#100. I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
Javier Bardem
