Form Quotes

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The World, form'd out of Chaos. Man is made.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.