Form Quotes

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.