Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

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

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

I've loved all forms of animation.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.

I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my recordings from the past, but I never thought someone was interested in releasing it.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.