Form Quotes
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
William Winwood Reade
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More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
Thomas Sowell
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Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
Willem de Kooning
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I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.
Mark Chesnutt
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Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.
Carl Orff
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Forgiveness is a form of the highest love
Ma Jaya
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Adolf Loos
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Painting is another form of thinking.
Gerhard Richter
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
Lyman Beecher
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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
Vladimir Kramnik
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Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
Mark Steyn
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
Steve Earle
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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
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These narrow-footed forms I was making, I thought, gosh, I could push those further, not to construct them the way Hans Coper did but to work in my own manner but push it more toward that form. And I learned to do that and enjoyed it for a number of years.
Warren MacKenzie
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
Brian Tracy
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
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When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
William Nicholson
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
Ernest Hemingway
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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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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Tom Stoppard
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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
Nicholas Mosley
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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
George Bernard Shaw