Form Quotes · Page 114

In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was…

— Steven C. Harper

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international…

— Mao Zedong

A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help…

— Damian Green

The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device,…

— Barbara Marciniak

...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

— Jesse Kellerman

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

— Scott D. Anthony

The form is so malleable and can do so many things.

— Jess Walter

Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually…

— Anonymous

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

— Sue Grafton

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

— Terri Windling

The idea [of the Fourth Phase ] was that by taking a closer look at where our weather comes from, and the…

— Travis Rice

Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night,…

— Saint Augustine

to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed…

— Sarah Kane

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

— Milan Kundera

We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples…

— Henry Franklin Floyd

To have a human form is a joyful thing.

— Zhuangzi

All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with…

— Dallas Willard

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival…

— Denis Dutton

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable…

— Allen W. Wood

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

— David Ogilvy

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another…

— Christian Bauman

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated…

— John Gimlette

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why…

— Eckhart Tolle

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

— Frances Moore Lappé

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have…

— Malcolm X

In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture…

— Baran Odar

I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been…

— Sarah Ruhl

Any divine communication from God to man is called revelation. Revelation comes in many different forms. All true revelation comes by the…

— Brent L. Top

All the help that comes to us is form the Holy Spirit, whether it comes in a dream or through the help…

— Harold Klemp

Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes…

— Max Beckmann

The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me…

— Walter Bonatti

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not…

— Spike Lee

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But…

— John Gallagher, Jr

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.

— Deena Metzger

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money,…

— Patrick Macnee