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I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.

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 beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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