Form Quotes

Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

To remember everything is a form of madness.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

A mere society form of Atheism.

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

Hope comes in many forms.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.