Form Quotes
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A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of environmental thing.
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I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.
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From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.
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A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
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Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.
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We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
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It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
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So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.
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It has been said that work is the highest form of play.
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Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
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Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.
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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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One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.
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There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
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A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
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And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
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Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.
