Form Quotes

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

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.