Form Quotes

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.