Form Quotes

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

Music is a form of prayer.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Form follows function.

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.