Form Quotes

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.