Form Quotes · Page 29

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

— Ronald Reagan

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

— Og Mandino

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

— Lord Byron

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

— William James

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

Discrimination , in all its forms, is bad for business.

— Tim Cook

I strongly believe in the art form of the album.

— El-P

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

— Arnold Schoenberg

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

— Seth Godin

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.

— Robert Penn Warren

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role…

— Simone Weil

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

— George Edward Woodberry

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.

— Geneen Roth

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

— Terry Pratchett

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you…

— David Levithan

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what…

— Bell Hooks

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there…

— Rachel Cohn

Adventure does not exist. It exists only in the mind of the man who pursues it, and as soon as his fingers…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its…

— Hu Jintao

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make…

— Pope Francis

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious…

— Billy Graham

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.…

— Mark Leyner

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The…

— Kenny Smith

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must…

— Meister Eckhart

Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you…

— Joseph Campbell

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family…

— Tom Robbins

Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante…

— Thomas A. Edison

Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of…

— Don DeLillo

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

— Dennis Ritchie

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

— Deepak Chopra

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

— Meredith Monk

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

— Georges Braque

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

— Frank Barron

Pain is just another form of information.

— Don DeLillo

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

— Lorde

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

— Robin G. Collingwood