Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

I didn't think that wave was going to offer a ton, ... But the wave just held form, and I was able to get a lot out of it.

I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself, but also in the form of nutrition.

I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of.

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations because the form that had those incarnations has dissolved into the clear light of reality.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.