Form Quotes

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.