Form Quotes

• The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Form
  • Funeral
  • Arrangements

• Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Government
  • Citizens
  • Printing

• 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
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Everyday

• Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Men
  • Hands
  • Consciousness

• Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

  

  Peyton Manning
  • Form
  • Imitation
  • Flattery

• I'm disappointed with myself. I went on to the (NHLPA) website where there's the (absentee-ballot) form to download and fill out. I was all ready to do it, but I missed the (deadline). I feel for the guys playing down in the States. Down there, you get no news about Canada.

  

  Andrew Ference
  • Playing
  • Form
  • Missed

• I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Given

• We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

  

  Noma Dumezweni
  • Form
  • Told
  • Storytellers

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

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Form
  • Rooms
  • Negativity

• Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Common
  • Combat
  • Heckling

• In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

  

  Nathaniel Dorsky
  • Film
  • Poetry
  • Theater

• Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in addition it means that you can explore an idea and change it and then change it and then change it; I don't mean by changing the one pot, but you make one pot then you make another that's related to that; you make another - you can make 50 pots in a day and none of them are going to be carbon copies of any other, but they'll all be related because there's something going through your mind about the form on that particular day.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Pot

• The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!

  

  Wong Shun Leung
  • Defense
  • Wings
  • Invisible

• 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
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Perfection

• It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

  

  Arthur Dove
  • Imagination
  • Form
  • Outside

• A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Dream
  • Looks
  • Sentiments

• It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

  

  Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Individual

• Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Things
  • Form

• I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

  

  Melissa Sagemiller
  • Being
  • Form
  • Torture

• My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • God
  • Man
  • Form

• I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.

  

  Carter Ratcliff
  • Artist
  • Feelings
  • Emotion

• 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
  • May
  • Fashion
  • Ignorance

• Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Exercise
  • Healthy
  • Bottom

• Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Christianity
  • Jesus Christ
  • Manhood

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