Form Quotes

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.