Form Quotes

All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.

My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde ways like radical Islam.

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies.

Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

One of the reasons why I had such a horrible draft is that I hosted an eight-hour pool party before the draft. and so I wasn't quite in my perfect drafting form.

A painted surface is a real, living form.

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I love well-designed products that combine form and functionality.

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it should be limited to.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

You can celebrate the female form in comfort.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.