Form Quotes

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.