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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

— Keith Jarrett

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

— Groucho Marx

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

— Richard Moss

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

— Alison Assiter

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

— Charles Dickens

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

— Asger Jorn

I missed out on the crash course that everyone else gets on 'Strictly' on every dance form.

— Kelvin Fletcher

I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about…

— John Lydon

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute…

— Plutarch

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

— Anonymous

Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form...without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be…

— Ralph Ellison

I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises…

— Devin Townsend

There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering…

— Richard Branson

Well, I don’t know. Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I…

— James Patterson

In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form…

— Nathaniel Dorsky

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

— George Eliot

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

— Tom Peters

Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern…

— Walter Gropius

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

— Ovid

I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.

— Hamza Yusuf

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more…

— Benjamin Haydon

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

— Brendan Dooling

When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly…

— Adi Da

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to…

— Mick Garris

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as…

— Albert Einstein

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with…

— Ameen Rihani

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit…

— Richard Bach

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

— Adam Weishaupt

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness

— Lisa Bonet

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college…

— Criss Jami

Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification…

— Leland Ryken

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

— Mark Twain

People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are…

— Edgar Friedenberg

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is…

— Alicia Silverstone

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that…

— Aristotle

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied…

— John Locke