Form Quotes

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

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.