No Form Quotes

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.

Always stand by form against force.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Capitalism is an art form.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Imagination is a form of seeing

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Just because it's true, I say as often as I can in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

Painting is another form of thinking.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression