Form Quotes

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

I miss live audiences, because it's like no other form of entertainment, where the audience is a major part of the production every night.

God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

Our every thought, image or affirmation is a prayer. Therefore, if everything you think, feel, say or do is a form of prayer, then make it uplifted and exalted.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.