Form Quotes · Page 54

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

— Swami Vivekananda

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

— Joseph Brodsky

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

— Mark Twain

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

— Scott McCloud

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

— John Charles Polanyi

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

Faith can take many different forms and expressions.

— Rob Bell

“A doll who can take any form but her own.”

— Victoria Aveyard

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch…

— Kate Bush

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

— Anonymous

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

— Piet Mondrian

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

— Maria V. Snyder

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

— Henry James

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

— DeWitt Wallace

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person…

— Al Oerter

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some…

— Edwidge Danticat

America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a…

— David Foster Wallace

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give…

— Joss Stone

Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short…

— Christopher Eccleston

Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In…

— Gretel Ehrlich

[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or…

— Roger Scruton

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my…

— Veronica Roth

The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly…

— Anne Lamott

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's…

— Charles A. Reich

If we actually love what we're doing and we go and do what we love, and every day we get up because…

— Kerry Stokes

In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and…

— Joseph Campbell

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is…

— Hannah Arendt

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea…

— Marquis de Lafayette

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked.…

— Madonna Ciccone

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

— Bill Maher

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

— Tablo

“When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.”

— Chris Kraus

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

— Doug Larson

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

— Dan Brown

I had quit the Congress to form the Progressive Democratic Front in 1978.

— Sharad Pawar

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

— Jacques Barzun