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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
Dorthea Brande

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
Michael Chertoff

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

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

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
Dirk Benedict

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
Bobby Sherman

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
Bob Schieffer

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.
Grace Napolitano

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
Michael Stipe

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
Kimi Raikkonen

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

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell

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

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
Chris Van Allsburg

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