Form Quotes
It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.
The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there.
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other forms and genres.
True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash often persuasive, almost always wrong.
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.
The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.
I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.
Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.
For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS in order to be able to localize and to compete with the American GPS.
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.
Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.
Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.
Today's prime educational objective must be to form men-and-women-for-others who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
I want guys who want to be here. I want guys who are energetic and passionate. I didn't see any passion from Todd. You could tell form his body language that he didn't want to be here.
I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.
There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.
We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.
The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.
Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.