Top 100 Form Quotes
#1. We want a culture of the people, by the people, and for the people, not defined by white European traditions, male preferences, or any other form of group identity.
R. R. Reno
#2. The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
Adam Christopher
#3. If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
Jonathan Dee
#4. Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
Banksy
#5. Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
Fernando Pessoa
#7. Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
Siri Hustvedt
#8. I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.
Chris Albrecht
#9. As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J.M. Coetzee
#10. In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
#11. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, than Christians have become pop culture's most devoted admirers.
Skye Jethani
#12. And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form
Richelle Mead
#13. [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.
George Washington
#14. Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
Peter Kreeft
#15. The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.
Henry Adams
#16. Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.
Martin Khor
#17. Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
Victor Vasarely
#18. We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.
David Milne
#19. The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#20. Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.
Gloria Steinem
#21. Writing is a very sophisticated form of multiple personality disorder.
Daryl Farmer
#22. Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
Susan Sontag
#23. I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
Werner Herzog
#24. Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Each may form his own hypothesis upon the present evidence, and yours is as likely to be correct as mine.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#26. Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
Marshall McLuhan
#27. The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
James Monroe
#28. I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
David Mitchell
#29. What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley
#30. Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.
Michelle Alexander
#31. The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#32. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.
Brad Paisley
#33. guess my favorite form of exercise is falling into bed each night.
Steve Demaree
#34. Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
Richard Hamming
#35. [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.
Charles Lloyd
#36. I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.
Noreena Hertz
#37. So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
James Bovard
#39. The most sincere form of kindness is not to show off our greatness but to help another discover their own.
Charles F. Glassman
#40. Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
#41. Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.
Manuel De Landa
#42. Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
James Russell Lowell
#43. All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
Dante Alighieri
#44. I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.
Lady Randolph Churchill
#45. Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
Paul Cezanne
#47. Light, show yourself pure and strong,
Save a man from evil's throng,
Take a form, small and white,
Give this girl the strength to fight.
Clara Diane Thompson
#48. Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
Aristotle.
#49. The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.
Nathan Goldstein
#50. Then what do we call you?" another of the heat forms asked.
"We are Rutan."
"Our species need something a little more particular," the first heat form of the Time Lord said. "I think we'll call you Fred, for ease of reference.
David A. McIntee
#51. I'm pretty sure his kisses are the best form of dieting there is, because every time his lips touch mine, I forget all about the fact that I'm starving.
Colleen Hoover
#52. Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness ... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile ... Not a single one but has at some time wept.
H.G.Wells
#53. The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
Adam Weishaupt
#54. I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
Lauren Oliver
#55. Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
Sydney J. Harris
#56. An experience has to be formed, no doubt, before it is communicated, but it takes the form it does largely because it may have to be communicated.
Ivor A. Richards
#57. Churches, laypersons, and ministers regularly have bad experiences in imbalanced churches and in response flee to the opposite extreme - an equally unbalanced form of ministry.
Timothy Keller
#59. In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.
Kurt Student
#60. His outfit wasn't what she was looking at, though. It was his eyes. They were always so bright, and with his hair falling into them, she was finding it hard to form coherent thoughts. But the she noticed that he hadn't shaved.
For the love of God.
Toni Aleo
#61. I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
George Hickenlooper
#62. The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#63. I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.
Bocafloja
#64. To see someone you love in so much pain - especially emotional pain that can't be remedied - was the worst form of torture.
Laura Kreitzer
#65. Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
Pat Conroy
#67. We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Christopher Alexander
#68. Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.
Bryant McGill
#69. Everyone should have a form of a diary it's a great release Most people's Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me".
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#70. Twenty minutes later, a new message came in, this one from Sydney herself: Back in human form. Everything seems to be normal. Everything? I questioned. Well, aside from a weird urge to chase laser pointers, she responded. If that's the worst effect, I'll take it. Keep me posted. I love you.
Richelle Mead
#71. Application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.
James Lee Burke
#72. People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.
Mila Kunis
#73. He could no longer remember his real name. He felt empty and cleansed, in that place that was not a place. He was without form, and void. He was nothing.
Neil Gaiman
#74. The pursuit of truth, as a form of political action, is inherently disruptive, anti-authoritarian, and dangerous to those content with the way things are.
Nancy Snow
#75. Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
Auguste Comte
#76. When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.
Idries Shah
#77. The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?
Kathleen Valentine
#79. Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D, Chiron put in.
Rick Riordan
#80. I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.
John Fusco
#81. I feel like I am very drawn to the short form stuff because it's just fun to be making something, and then, a week later, it's out. I will always be drawn to that kind of thing.
Roman Coppola
#82. For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
Ashley Montagu
#83. I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)
George Cayley
#84. Enlightening people with facts is also a form of social service.
Rohith Thatchan C
#85. So let me get this straight. You think it is ok to murder a child in the womb, but it's not ok to kill a serial killer." Debater 2: "That's not what I said. I denounce murder in any form, but abortion is not murder.
Suzanne L. Davis
#86. Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#87. Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.
Dan B. Allender
#88. Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.
MC Yogi
#89. Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
Robert Breault
#90. No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.
Russell Smith
#91. Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods like nuts and seeds have profound cardiovascular benefits.
Joel Fuhrman
#92. Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.
Ernest Holmes
#93. What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding each second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum
#94. I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Witold Gombrowicz
#95. Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.
Don DeLillo
#96. But she could not reduce her vision to words, since it was no single shape coloured upon the dark, but rather a general excitement, an atmosphere, which, when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of the northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools.
Virginia Woolf
#98. In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
Freya Stark
#99. How exactly does a steam-powered gun turret differentiate between friend and foe? I wasn't aware that boiled water could form allegiances.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#100. [ ... ] to catch those unrecorded gestures, those unsaid or half-said words, which form themselves, no more palpably than the shows of moths on the ceiling, when women are alone, unlit by the capricious and coloured light of the other sex.
Virginia Woolf
