No Form Quotes

Not to be mad is another form of madness

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.

Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.

Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.

You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.