All Quotes

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.
‐‐ Michael Graves

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Formal is formal. I can't wear sneakers all the time. Sometimes, I wear other shoes. It's not my challenge designing formal - it's so boring - but it's still important. I sell a lot of classic black sneakers made from every material because everyone loves black, and if you mix and match material, you get an opera.
‐‐ Giuseppe Zanotti

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.
‐‐ Alan Cheuse

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
‐‐ Mary Lou Retton

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
‐‐ Garet Garrett

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre.
‐‐ Philip M. Parker

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
‐‐ Tamara Ecclestone

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.
‐‐ Mark Webber

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.
‐‐ Francis Alys

Forney in 'Where the Heart Is' has more fans than any other character I've played.
‐‐ James Frain

'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
‐‐ Sally Field

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

Forrest Mims is the author of the famous book 'Getting Started in Electronics,' published by RadioShack for many years. I bought the book in the 1980s and had a blast making the projects in it. When I was editor-in-chief of 'MAKE,' I asked Forrest to write a column for the magazine, called 'The Backyard Scientist.'
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.
‐‐ Ernest Thompson Seton

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

Forth & Towne was a great test of a promising concept and an illustration of the innovative risks you need to take in our business. We made the tough decision to close the brand and focus our efforts on stabilizing the existing businesses.
‐‐ Robert J. Fisher

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.
‐‐ James Marsters

Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
‐‐ John Locke

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
‐‐ Olympia Brown

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
‐‐ Peter Latham

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
‐‐ Karen Horney

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
‐‐ Josh Holloway

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
‐‐ Allen Ginsberg

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
‐‐ Ted Nugent

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.
‐‐ Jenny Agutter

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.
‐‐ Tom Brady