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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall.
I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.
There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.
In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.
Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.
Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.
We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.