Form Quotes
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Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
Alvar Aalto
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All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
Scott McCloud
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Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.
Thomas Nagel
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Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.
Allen Lacy
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The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
William O. Douglas
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Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.
George Arthur Crump
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People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.
Cassandra King
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I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.
William Wyman Sherwood Asia
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Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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
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I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.
Andrew Flintoff
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I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.
Warren MacKenzie
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Tom Stoppard
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I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
Geoffrey Rush
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And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.
Sanford I. Weill
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That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.
Mila Kunis
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
William Hazlitt
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It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.
Eudora Welty
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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
Garry Winogrand
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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
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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
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The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!
William Shirley
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Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
Diane Ackerman