Form Quotes · Page 42

Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.

— Cathleen Falsani

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

— Plato

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

— Diane Ackerman

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

— Eric Hoffer

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

— Anonymous

Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy.

— Pope Benedict XVI

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

— Saul Bellow

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

— Jeff Cooper

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

— Jennifer Egan

We're in the world of football, it's a spectacle and the coaches form part of that.

— Jordi Alba

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as…

— James Dobson

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

— Allison Joseph

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

— Maureen Dowd

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to…

— Kelly McGillis

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution…

— Anonymous

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form…

— Nhat Hanh

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on…

— Marianne Williamson

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as…

— Darryl Pinckney

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature…

— Daniel Levitin

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure…

— Frederick Lenz

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next…

— Steve Martin

It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or…

— Edward Sapir

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially…

— David Elkind

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder…

— Temple Grandin

For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias,…

— Theo van Doesburg

So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest…

— Henry Parry Liddon

The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I…

— Ellsworth Kelly

If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit.…

— Warren MacKenzie

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

— Tryon Edwards

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

— Amy Tan

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Human life must be some form of mistake

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

— Merce Cunningham

I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

— Michael Gilbert

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

— Henri Rousseau

The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

— Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry