Form Quotes

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.