Form Quotes
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
William James
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We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
Henry Louis Gates
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Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
Ryan Holmes
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
Ray Bradbury
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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.
William S. Burroughs
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Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
Terence McKenna
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
Ernest Hemingway
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I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible
Anders Petersen
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
Wole Soyinka
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The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!
Wong Shun Leung
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You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?
Caroline Stevermer
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Writing is a form of self-flagellation.
William Styron
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I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.
Melissa Sagemiller
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Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.
Jean Chretien
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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
Charles A. Reich
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Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability
Stephen A. Schwarzman
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People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.
Mila Kunis
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Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.
Cathy Davidson
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What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
Asger Jorn
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Copying is a form of self-validation.
Patrick Cox
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Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
William Gibson