Form Quotes

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.