Form Quotes

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Stage performing is a dying art form.