Form Quotes
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.
The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.
'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.
Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.
All physical beings have communication from their inner being in the form of emotion, and so, whenever your emotion is positive, you can know that you are in harmony with your inner intention.
It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.
If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.
At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.
In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.
And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.
An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.
There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.
We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.
I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.
The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."
You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.
You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.
When we meditate with love we go very, very high , above thought, above form. Your love will cause you to have a union.
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.
Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.
There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.
What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.
Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.