Form Quotes

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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.

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.