Quotes and Sayings About Form
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
-- Ada Louise HuxtableSource : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
-- Adam Carolla -
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
-- Adolf Loos -
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
-- Adolph GottliebSource : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 51, 1990.
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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
-- African SpirSource : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
-- Ajay Naidu -
As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.
-- Al Capp -
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
-- Al Gore -
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
-- Alain Resnais -
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
-- Alan Bennett -
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.
-- Alan Dundes -
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
-- Alan Keyes -
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
-- Albert Camus -
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The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .
-- Albert Camus -
Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
-- Albert Einstein -
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
-- Albert Ellis -
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
-- Alberto Moravia -
The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form.
-- Alberto VilloldoSource : Alberto Villoldo, Erik Jendresen (1992). “Journey to the Island of the Sun: The Return to the Lost City of Gold”, Harpercollins
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As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
-- Albrecht Durer -
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
-- Albrecht Durer -
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
-- Alex Trebek