Form Quotes

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.