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

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

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 is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

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

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.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

The best form of saying is doing.

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

The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind.

The best form of worship is to be happy, to be grateful.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an inscrutable complexity of form, extent, and relationships with each other.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the wandering around Venice in pursuit of Tadzio isn't a prelude to some sexual contact for which Aschenbach is yearning.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.