Form Quotes

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

The novel remains a very special form for me.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

On the Internet, you can form a community without having to go through the trouble of meeting anyone.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

Form follows finances instead of function.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.