Formula Quotes

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

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.