Form Quotes

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.

I don't know what the long form of OK is. I wanna think it's okie dokie. 'I'm okie dokie. I'm a little shaken up, but I'm okie dokie.' 'The good news is, she's okie dokie. The surgery went fine.'

There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!” Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

When you look at Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area.

Everything of real value is in my financial disclosure form.

I will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside America. We cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists.

I think we're gonna end up with a much better relationship with Mexico. We will have the wall and in a very serious form Mexico will pay for the wall.

If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.