Form Quotes

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes.

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

Love is a negative form of hatred.

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other.

You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.

Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.