Form Quotes
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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.
George Spencer-Brown -
Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
Eudora Welty
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I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
Ricky Williams -
National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.
George Will -
Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel -
It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
Catherine Ponder -
One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.
Tom Vilsack
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I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.
Judith Butler -
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."
Casey Affleck -
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
Susanne Langer -
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
Peyton Manning -
The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so that it will take form.
Charles F. Haanel -
Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.
Kathryn Budig
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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.
Tim Pratt -
Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
Terence McKenna -
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer -
Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
Richard Pryor -
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.
Mike Figgis -
I don't mind either one crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.
Bill Burr
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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.
Cherie Carter-Scott -
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.
Paul Davies -
Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
Simon Sinek -
It has been said that work is the highest form of play.
Catherine Ponder