Form Quotes
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.
China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.
American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.
I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.
The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that's in our American interests. It's its good that the West is strong and at peace, and we should want more of that, not less.
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed
A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
I guess it could be seen as a form of rebellion, but (my dad) is pretty supportive. He's knows I'm just an idiot, so I think that softens it a little bit.
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.
Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.
There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.
I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.
The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.
Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.
It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.
Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.
Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.
In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.