Form Quotes
Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.
It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.
Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.
I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.
The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin—returning it to the sky where it promises to find me again in the form of dew, snow, or rain.
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.
And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.
I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.
If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”
I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.
A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.
The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.