Top 1200 Form Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.

The best form in which to worship God is every form.

To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create a book that affords readers some of the novel's long-form pleasures but that also contains the short story's ability to capture what is so difficult about being human - the brevity of our moments, their cruel irrevocability.

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

The best form to see God in... is in every form

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music, a form of release to them.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

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