Form Quotes
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Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
Eileen Wilks
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
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My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.
Karl Blossfeldt
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Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.
William Shatner
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Aristotle
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
Eden Hazard
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.
Socrates
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The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
Octave Feuillet
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I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
Andy Rooney
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
E. W. Howe
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Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.
Charles G. Dawes
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Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Form follows beauty.
Oscar Niemeyer
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
Rand Paul
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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.
Nicolas Poussin
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow
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Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
Garik Israelian
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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
W. G. Sebald