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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

Fitness - Focus - Form.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I'll feel so much better afterwards.

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Form is the host; content is the virus.

Form follows finances instead of function.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.