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Quotes About Form

After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
~ A. J. Jacobs
The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.
~ Anthony Quinn
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
~ Saul Alinsky
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
~ Neal Boortz
I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.
~ Jon Foreman
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
~ Steve Jobs
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
~ Unknown
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
being where a waist should be instead of up under the armpits as present fashion decreed.
~ Marion Chesney
This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
~ Mark Akenside
Much like Ros's novels, then, The Room is remarkable for the way it seems to expose the absurd artifices of its form by getting everything about that form so flagrantly wrong. Wiseau's failure to achieve the clichés he seems to aim for at the level of plot, dialogue, and performance eventually starts to look like aesthetic subversion.
~ Unknown
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
~ Mark Rothko
The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.
~ Unknown
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
~ Mark Strand
brows, a flattened nose, and massive arms and shoulders.
~ Unknown
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
~ Will Rogers
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
~ Quentin Crisp
The human body is the best work of art.
~ Jess C. Scott
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
~ Gavyn Davies
In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.
~ Francis Fukuyama
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner