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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.

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

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

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.

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

I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

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.

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.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

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.

It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

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.

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