Form Quotes

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

Failure too is a form of death.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.

The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.