Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.

I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew what they were getting in for.

I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since then has just been repetition. A lot of it is marvelous but the forms haven't changed.

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.

I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.