No Form Quotes

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself, but also in the form of nutrition.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.