Form Quotes · Page 85

Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me,…

— Robert Greene

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it…

— Kaija Saariaho

The relationship that people have with music is entirely different now. People spend much less time experiencing music on a one on…

— Jacob Bannon

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

— Howard Zinn

If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to…

— Iris Marion Young

Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of…

— Kim Harrison

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

— Eckhart Tolle

This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment…

— Robin Sloan

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it…

— Jeff Dunham

The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to…

— Hugh Miller

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so,…

— Erykah Badu

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed,…

— Romain Rolland

When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

— Anonymous

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

— Arshile Gorky

Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single…

— Esther Hicks

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects…

— Samuel Johnson

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Not all teachers utilize both forms of light.In certain circles, those teachers who can manifest the light of samadhi but not the…

— Frederick Lenz

The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form.

— Alberto Villoldo

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

— Narendra Modi

Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

— Katie Hopkins

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the…

— John Wycliffe

The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You…

— Frans de Waal

I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth,…

— Solange Knowles

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under…

— Allen W. Wood

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

— David Cortright

Many people don't know that I experienced a blood clot caused by deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, which is when a blood…

— Arnold Palmer

With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the…

— D. Todd Christofferson

Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got…

— Jon Stewart

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You…

— William Monahan

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

— Dale E. Turner

I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.

— Ed Kowalczyk

Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

— Rene Dubos

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to…

— Will Self