Form Quotes

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.

Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come out in new shapes and forms.

Better too much form than too little.

That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.

And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

I'm not a racist. And to judge me by that one word is wrong. In no way, shape or form is it ever acceptable for me to use that word, even if it's friend to friend on a voicemail.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

Faith can take many different forms and expressions.

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I'm on good form. I'm an older guy. I feel healthy, I've been training, I'm looking after myself, I get up early. I look after the dogs. I'm happy.

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

Work is a form of nervousness.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.