Form Quotes

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

Buildings are forms of performances.

I exercise regularly; I make it a point to spend some time in the gym. It is important for people to enjoy their exercises, so choose a form of exercise that makes you happy.

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Wisdom is infused into every form.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release has no artistic form.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day will help reinforce your desires to attain what you set out to achieve.

Form is never more than an extension of content.

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

God does not look at your outer forms, but at the love within your love.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

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

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.