Quotes About Form

It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.

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

Evil is not an abstract concept. It lives. It has a form. It stalks. It is too real.

Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist and that, for this reason, ideal form does not exist. Form that is in constant modulation and in agreement with the unceasingly changing aspects of our existence, such as we will produce it. The environment in which we live influences our activity, but reciprocally this environment is a product of our creative activity.

Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

a human mechanical form

The three poisons are exactly what creates the three realms of samsara. Attachment creates the realms of desire. Aversion creates the realms of form. Indifference creates the realms of formlessness.

Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world.

architecture is there, presenting itself to us even when we do not seek it out or even choose to be conscious of it

When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's form follows function, what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error. Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

human architecture

My head was buzzing with anxiety—it was all those warnings—but relief came in the form of butterflies of the sort I'd seen on the riverbank at El Cenizo.

Kettlebell cleans and snatches are not curls; the arms barely pass the force generated by the hips. Should your arms tense up, especially on the downswing, you are asking to tweak your elbows

Don't let your knees go forward. Ideally, your shins should be close to vertical. If you do not feel your hamstrings tighten up when you descend, you are squatting wrong. Imagine that you are wearing ski boots and your ankles cannot bend. If you own a pair, why imagine? Wear them. You cannot help but learn to fold in your hip joints.

To make sure you're swinging without using your arms, attach a lifting strap or very short rope [or a towel] to a kettlebell... "Try a few swings. If you're driving the weight up with your hips, the bell, rope, and arm should all be in one line throughout the rep. If you're using your arms, your hands will rise up above the strap and bell.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.