Form famous quotes

Lists are a form of power.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Lists #Form

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Nostalgia #Individual #Form

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Form #Collecting #Clutter

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
-- Adam Carolla

#Form #Mess #Format

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
-- Adolf Loos

#Demand #Form #Supply And Demand

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
-- Adolph Gottlieb

#Innocence #Tradition #Form

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
-- African Spir

#Social #States #Form

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
-- Aidan Chambers

#World #Consciousness #Form

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Important #Form #Given

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.
-- Al Capp

#Mother #Welfare #Form

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
-- Al Gore

#Ideas #Impossible #Form

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
-- Alain Resnais

#Communication #Emotion #Form

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
-- Alan Bennett

#Play #Form #Pursuit

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
-- Alan Dundes

#Trying #Students #Form

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
-- Alan Keyes

#Benches #Midst #Form

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
-- Albert Camus

#Strange #Rebellion #Form

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .
-- Albert Camus

#Order #Rebellion #Form

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
-- Albert Einstein

#Games #Form #Investigation

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
-- Albert Ellis

#Form #Deeper #Therapy

The form is always the measure of the obsession.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Obsession #Form

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Littles #Disappointing #Form

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
-- Alberto Moravia

#Character #Free Will #Form

The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form.
-- Alberto Villoldo

#Taken #Divine #Form

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
-- Albrecht Durer

#Art #Simplicity #Form

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
-- Albrecht Durer

#Men #Perfection #Form

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Form #Strings #Thread

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Artist #Significant #Form

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Diversity #Unity #Form

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Self #Hatred #Form

Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
-- Alex Trebek

#Phrases #Answers #Form

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
-- Alexander Calder

#Art #Color #Form

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
-- Alexander Calder

#Art #Form #Models

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
-- Alexander Calder

#Art #Movement #Form

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
-- Alexander Eliot

#Color #Painting #Form

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Form #Should

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
-- Alexander Pope

#Fighting #Life Is #Form

No more was seen the human form divine.
-- Alexander Pope

#Divine #Form #Humans

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
-- Alexander Pope

#Humor #Literature #Form

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity
-- Alexander Waugh

#Stupidity #Form #Seriousness

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
-- Alexis Carrel

#Beauty #Carpe Diem #Form

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
-- Alexis Korner

#Schizophrenia #Form #Beneficial

The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

#Cezanne #Tradition #Form

Puns are the highest form of literature.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Funny #Literature #Form

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Matter #Form #Modification

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
-- Alfred Shrubb

#Running #Athletic #Form

"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Religious #Devotion #Form

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Grateful #Chivalry #Form

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
-- Alice James

#Form #Proportion #Given

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
-- Alison Bechdel

#Grief #Absence #Form

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
-- Allan Bloom

#People #Deeds #Form

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
-- Allan Bloom

#Prejudice #Reason #Form

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
-- Alonzo King

#Art #Intuition #Form

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Form

Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new form
-- Alvar Aalto

#Doe #Disappear #Form

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Military #Silence #Form

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hateful #Pleasure #Form

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.
-- Amy Hardie

#Healing #Shamanism #Form

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
-- Amy Lowell

#Art #Emotion #Form

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

#Writing #Thinking #Form

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
-- Amy Tan

#Form #Left Behind #Behinds

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
-- Anais Nin

#Form

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.
-- Andre Agassi

#Trophies #Strive #Form

There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
-- Andreas Deja

#Stories #Length #Form

Vision is an intelligent form of thought
-- Andreas Gursky

#Intelligent #Vision #Form

...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Giving #Moments #Form

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
-- Andrew Sean Greer

#Doe #Pearls #Form

Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
-- Andrzej Stasiuk

#Healthy #Form

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Stones #Form #Reconstruction

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form
-- Anish Kapoor

#Logic #Kind #Form

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
-- Ann Coulter

#Form #Cases #Treachery

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Work #Form

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.
-- Anna Kamienska

#Longing #Painful #Form

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
-- Anne Carson

#Men #Philosopher #Form

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
-- Anne Lamott

#Laughter #Holiness #Form

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
-- Anne McCaffrey

#Writing #Stories #Form

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form,
-- Anne Truitt

#Form #Maximum #Simplest

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.
-- Annette Funicello

#Children #Television #Form

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.
-- Anthony Crosland

#Believe #Long #Form

Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#People #Interesting #Form

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Selfishness #Satanism #Form

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.
-- Anton Webern

#Art #Human Nature #Form

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Magic #Consideration #Form

Form does not necessarily follow function
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Doe #Form #Function

Cinema is an art form.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Art #Cinema #Form

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
-- Arabella Weir

#Goal #Form #Tricky

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
-- Aristotle

#Action #Misery #Form

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
-- Aristotle

#Government #Democracy #Form

The soul is the form of the body
-- Aristotle

#Soul #Body #Form

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western
-- Armand Assante

#Italian #Modern #Form

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

#Ideas #Language #Form

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.
-- Arshile Gorky

#Dream #Artist #Form

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
-- Arthur Dove

#Ideas #Imagination #Form

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
-- Arthur Middleton

#Church #Christ #Form

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Atheism #Pantheism #Form

Human life must be some form of mistake.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Life #Mistake #Form

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
-- Arthur Symons

#Art #Prejudice #Form

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
-- Asa Gray

#Animal #Plant #Form

We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.
-- Asger Jorn

#Art #Renewal #Form

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.
-- Athol Fugard

#Play #Form #Disguise

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
-- August Strindberg

#Ideas #Theatre #Form