Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

standing in line is a form of oppression

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

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

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

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

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

Tao is so important because it is connected to all the life forms - it's related to the whole universe. Nobody can say, "Tao has nothing to do with me. Why should I try to understand it?" because actually, Tao has everything to do with us.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.