Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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.
My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."
I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.
Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.
In its pure crystalline form, MSG can be added to soups, stews, sauces, and stocks to add a rounded, savory flavor.
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.