Form Quotes

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.