Form Quotes

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster.

Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

I just wanted to get the message that God had put into my heart into another form, because I knew the print media would reach a different group of people.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.

I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.