Top 100 Quotes About Forms
#1. I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
Tom Lehrer
#2. The German passion for bureaucracy
for written and signal forms ... to move about, to work, to exist
is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect ...
Janet Flanner
#3. Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
#4. The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann Hesse
#5. From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#7. I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.
Susan Stroman
#8. Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.
James E. Faust
#9. Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good.
Frederick Lenz
#10. This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits ... It is so delicious to fly like a bird!
Marie Marvingt
#11. 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
#12. In Africa, there is much confusion ... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication ... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.
Youssou N'Dour
#13. When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit.
Deborah Sandella
#14. The key to effective content marketing is to deeply understand and address your target audience's interests and concerns by publishing content in a variety of forms, in the channels where your audience spends time.
Jason Miller
#15. Technology, society, media: these are mutable forms, shape-shifting, forever re-purposing themselves. They sit within the wild, weird and wonderful frame of change. But there is a frame.
Simon Pont
#16. In heart, mind, soul and spirit, we do not exist in a myriad of dissimilar forms. We are every possible form, which has existed and is yet to come. When we we enter a state of oneness, we get a sense of this, as our being. The "We" is transformed into an all-encompassing "I".
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#17. Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvellous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.
Max Beckmann
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Manuel De Cortes
#19. I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.
Suzanne Collins
#20. You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
Aidan Chambers
#21. Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.
Timothy Keller
#22. Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.
Dalai Lama
#23. Even Orlando (who had no conceit of her person) knew it, for she smiled the involuntary smile which women smile when their own beauty, which seems not their own, forms like a drop falling or a fountain rising and confronts them all of a sudden in the glass.
Virginia Woolf
#24. I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.
Thornton Wilder
#25. Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.
Andrew Weil
#26. It was autumn and falling stars
Covered the shrivelled forms
Crouched in the moonlight.
Wallace Stevens
#27. Courage can be displayed in many forms, my lord,' I said gently. 'Sometimes it's evident in the knight charging forward with the lance on his steed. But perhaps it can also take the form of a head bowed before the enemy.
Jody Hedlund
#28. As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
Gianfranco Ferre
#29. Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either pre- or postsynaptic change is contingent upon closely occurring events in both neurons taking part in the synapse.
Gerald Edelman
#30. Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.
Paul Klee
#31. If God refuses to mass-produce but insists on an intimate process that in the end forms each of us into the image of Christ, why would we choose a lesser path for our own lives? The work of the artist begins with the care of his or her own soul.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#32. All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
A.J.P. Taylor
#33. How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.
Frederick Lenz
#34. And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert
and their absence keeps us grateful.
T.A. Barron
#35. Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.
Rae Armantrout
#36. The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#37. Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from the nameless mass.
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#38. If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
Eugene J. Martin
#39. Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but
it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.
George MacDonald
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
Madame De Stael
#43. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.
CM Punk
#44. The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
Peter Kropotkin
#45. For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.
Jeffrey Toobin
#46. Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.
Joseph Sobran
#47. 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
#48. Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.
Bertrand Russell
#49. It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
Georges Braque
#50. Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
Alexander Eliot
#51. Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.
Wole Soyinka
#52. Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity.
Katy Tackes
#53. While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.
Emanuel Lasker
#54. Shrimp and scallops are also healthy forms of seafood low in toxins and high in good quality protein and minerals.
Rick Warren
#55. World" as thought through Heidegger's work would be the mutually achieved composite of meaning and matter; what is disclosed - that is, what presents itself to us through our doing, saying, and making - is disclosed as already fitted into material environments and holistic forms of significance.
Thomas Rickert
#56. Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.
Paul Ekman
#58. Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.
Ann Laura Stoler
#59. What are we if we are not products of our history? History is not in our past but forms us in the present. And how histories are written or interpreted depends on what we do today.
H.O. Charles
#60. There is no perfection in human things, only in the world of Forms.
Jo Walton
#61. Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.
Deepak Chopra
#62. Controversies remain over the details, but today no biologist doubts that evolutionary dynamics like mutualism, kinship, and various forms of reciprocity can select for psychological faculties that, under the right circumstances, can lead people to coexist peacefully.4
Steven Pinker
#63. Zen has a pronounced iconoclastic tendency, and regards the study of texts, doctrines, and dogmas as a potential hindrance to spiritual awakening, relying instead on humour, spontaneity, unconventionality, poetry, and other forms of artistic expression to communicate the idea of enlightenment
Damien Keown
#64. In many places an administrative approach prevails over a pastoral approach, as does a concentration on administering the sacraments apart from other forms of evangelization.
Pope Francis
#65. Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#66. Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.
Chris Hedges
#67. But it turns out your thousand trillion trillion atoms were not an accidental collection: each was labeled as composing you and continues to be so wherever it goes. So you're not gone, you're simply taking on different forms.
David Eagleman
#68. 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
#69. There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.
Trey Gowdy
#70. To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.
Joseph Goebbels
#71. Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.
Jim Ramstad
#72. The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
Richard P. Feynman
#73. What you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.
Bill McKibben
#74. I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
Chris Abani
#75. Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.
Fritz Zwicky
#76. Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical
Kenzo Tange
#77. Netiquette is overdelicate because kids use the internet. Adult content forms are triplicate, ASL.
David Chiles
#78. Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
George Eliot
#79. We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.
Vicente Fox
#80. The institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work.
Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
#81. Pure consciousness expresses itself in millions of different forms but the root of consciousness is what we call Being, The Light, Universal Life, Spirit, I Am or God.
Christopher Dines
#82. Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine.
Richard Rohr
#83. Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.
Luther Burbank
#84. New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.
Christopher Hitchens
#85. Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,' its transcendence into higher forms of life.
Robert Muller
#86. Direct and easy communications - freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense - has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
Walt Disney Company
#87. Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.
Iain Reid
#88. The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen
#89. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.
Michael Hersch
#91. All forms of oppression carry their own semantics.
Judd Trichter
#92. We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
Dwight Schultz
#93. Like every big idea, Birdseye's breakthrough was not a single insight, but a network of other ideas, packaged together in a new configuration. What made Birdseye's idea so powerful was not simply his individual genius, but the diversity of places and forms of expertise that he brought together.
Steven Johnson
#94. All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to.
Jonathan Raymond
#95. Two billion years bacterial organisms were the only forms of life. They lived, they reproduced, they swarmed, but they didn't show any particular inclination to move on to another, more challenging level of existence.
Bill Bryson
#96. The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
Daniel Kahneman
#97. Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#98. Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#99. It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.
Ruth St. Denis
#100. When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.
Eckhart Tolle
