Form Quotes

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.