Form Quotes · Page 45

“But trying to hope is itself a form of hope.”

— Jeff Backhaus

Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

— Josh Billings

A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.

— Kevin Olusola

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

— Andrew Sean Greer

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

— Sue Monk Kidd

To win against guys in form is always nice.

— Michael van Gerwen

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.

— Moby

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

— Thomas Carlyle

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory,…

— Javier Marías

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

— Emile Chartier

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a…

— Fernando Pessoa

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert…

— Annie Leibovitz

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well…

— William O. Douglas

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as…

— Marilyn Manson

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso…

— Will Self

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself…

— Alanis Morissette

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.…

— Margaret Atwood

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life…

— Angel Haze

I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is…

— Phyllis Chesler

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says:…

— Ayn Rand

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click,…

— Tim Burton

What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean…

— Ishmael Reed

A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on…

— Hilary Mantel

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when…

— Timothy Keller

People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility…

— Anthony de Jasay

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book…

— Mark Twain

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

— Lars von Trier

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

— James Lee Burke

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

— Radclyffe Hall

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

— Wanda Koop

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

— Michael Josephson

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

— Lisa Jewell

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

— Allan Jacobs

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

— Joyce Brothers