Unformed Quotes

#1. How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

Lionel Shriver

#3. They say revenge is empty." "This is my first try at it," Holden said. "Forgive me if my opinions on it are fairly unformed.

James S.A. Corey

#4. Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle;

Jane Austen

#5. Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

Mary Baker Eddy

#6. My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Claire Danes

#7. Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

Lewis Mumford

#8. I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

Akira Kurosawa

#9. Having done quite a bit with studios and networks, I thought if I'm going to do something new and unformed, it would be fun to do it in a completely new space and place. The space being the Internet and the place being Crackle.

Jerry Seinfeld

#10. The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#11. 16Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. +

Anonymous

#12. My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry, unformed shapes in my head. Dead one second, alive the next.
Kind of like me.

Megan Miranda

#13. The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

Saint Basil

#14. Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed ...

Dorothy Gilman

#15. Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

Erik Naggum

#16. Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

Laozi

#17. The water was not God. The water undulating slightly with the waves unformed was not spiritual. It was jagged cold water and it felt perfect when we put our hands into it, and it kissed out palms again and again, would never stop kissing our palms - and why wasn't that enough?

Dave Eggers

#18. My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

Robyn Davidson

#19. The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Diego Rivera

#20. It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

Zhuangzi

#21. In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Lionel Trilling

#22. Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

C.S. Lewis

#23. The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

Saint Basil

#24. Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.

Mark Kingwell

#25. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

#26. I still felt unformed, like a cake half baked with edges crisp, but still mushy in the middle.

Sarah Dessen

#27. The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.

John Dewey

#28. You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

Wallace D. Wattles

#29. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#30. Mouseburger: unpretty, unspecial, unformed.

Lena Dunham

#31. The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

William Gibson

#32. I feel strange, like there's an unformed, unfinished, sad little emotion bottled up in me, and I need to fuck it away.

Carolyn Crane

#33. It was the summer just before we both turned twenty. Before life began to chip away at us like a sculptor into marble, reducing us from endless unformed possibility into the women we would ultimately become.

Kim Wright

#34. Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

Julien Torma

#35. Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.

Stephen King

#36. And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

Samuel Daniel

#37. I think you kept three credits, consciously or subconsciously, so that you could hang on to something, hang on and not move forward. I think you want to feel that you're still unfinished.
She wanted to tell her grandmother that she was still unfinished. Unfinished, unanswered, unformed.

Paullina Simons