Form Quotes

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy!