Form Quotes

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

Form is the host; content is the virus.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.