Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. — William Howard Adams Copy Share Image
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form. — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives. — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works.… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image