Form Quotes
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To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.
William Shakespeare -
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
Willa Cather
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Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.
Virginia Woolf -
To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?
Bruce Willis -
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
Etgar Keret -
I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
Tom G. Palmer
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As far as I understand, the president-elect of the United States [Donald Trump] is ready for such joint work. We do not know yet what it will be like in actual practice. We have to wait for him to take office and form his administration.
Vladimir Putin -
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.
William Stanley Jevons -
With pencil, with chalk, with a brush I shall seek its form - with my hands I shall model what tyranny deforms.
Campbell McGrath -
I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Ten things you should always do when you form a group 1. Work with your friends 2. Find like-minded people 3. Have ultimate self-belief 4. Write great songs 5. Get a great manager 6. Live in Manchester 7. Support each other through thick and thin 8. Realise no one person is bigger than the group (thanks to Gene Simmons for that one) 9. Watch where the money goes 10. Always get separate legal advice for everything before you sign; failing that, ask your mam and dad.
Peter Hook New Order -
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
Will Self
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I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
Katherine McCoy -
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
Susanne Langer -
Any form of art is a form of power.
Ossie Davis -
What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
Garry Winogrand -
In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.
Murray Head
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That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.
Mila Kunis -
A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
Tom Stoppard -
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
Thomas Kinkade -
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Norman Granz