Form Quotes

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

Content dictates form and style.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

Commerce is a form of warfare.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Procrastination is another form of resistance

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.