Form Quotes

I want to not do anything I've done before. That can come in any form.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

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.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.