Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

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

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

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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

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

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.

Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

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

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.

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

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

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

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

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

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

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

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

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

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.

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

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

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

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

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