Form Quotes
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
Ajahn Chah -
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
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Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.
William Whewell -
Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
Brian Tracy -
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
William Allen White -
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
C. S. Lewis -
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
Matt Bellamy Muse -
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate
W. J. T. Mitchell
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Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
Alvar Aalto -
I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
John Travolta -
We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.
Kevin Spacey -
Time and space are only forms of thought.
E. Nesbit -
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Adolf Loos -
Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.
Marshall Field
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi -
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
Viola Davis -
We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.
Bill Vaughan -
I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
Maajid Nawaz -
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
Ernest Hemingway
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Billy Joel -
Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.
Allen Lacy -
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
Vladimir Kramnik -
To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.
George Washington