Quotes on Formula

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

Author: Piers Anthony

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?

Author: Saint Augustine

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Author: Emile Cioran

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

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.

Author: Bernie Ecclestone

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Author: Thom Gunn

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

Author: Lee Konitz

I try not to do anything by formula.

Author: Sean Lennon

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

Author: Jet Li

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

Author: Nigel Mansell

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

Author: Branford Marsalis

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

Author: Grace Napolitano

Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.

Author: David Obey

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Author: Alan Rudolph

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

Author: Irwin Shaw

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

Author: George Shearing

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

Author: Barry Sheene

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

Author: Michael Zaslow