No Form Quotes

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.

Life is not free from its forms.

A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.

Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

The only boundaries we have are in form. There are no obstacles in thought.

Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in a storm.

The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.