Forms Quotes

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

I love being creative in all forms.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.