Form Quotes

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.