Form Quotes
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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
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The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
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I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
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We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.
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I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru
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Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.
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So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.
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Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
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Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.
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When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
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In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. Bernard Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
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We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
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People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.
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Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.
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I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, "I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this."
