Quotes About Form

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

In our maturer years, when an object of vision is presented to us which bears any similitude to the form of the female bosom . . .we feel a general glow of delight which seems to influence all of our senses . . .

There are no two things as important to us in life and in art as being threatened and being saved. What are ideals of form for if we aren't going to be made to fear for them? All our ingenuity is lavished on getting into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued.

Life is—and we are—byproducts of combustion. Imagination turned to form and finally, memory.

A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.

Bad form, Regin! Wrong car. Immediately after, the house shook again. Oh, much better! Nix assured them. That was Bowen's!

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

what was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul is lifted free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembered in song and story. May your parents be proud, and may your children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Now that I am awake I shall reveal my true form.. to the world!!" Hahahaha! Hey You Morons! I'm Just Kidding! -Yusuke YuYu Hakusho

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

O sonho volta para dentro da realidade. A realidade, para dentro do sonho. E... a verdade... para dentro do coração. É o coração que dá forma à pessoa. Quando cada um, voluntariamente, criar a imagem de si mesmo... todos recuperarão sua forma humana.

In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to think only of herself experienced an egoism so immaculate.

For me, beauty is always retreating from one's grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed. By its subtle, infinitely varied operation, the steel restored the classical balance that the body had begun to lose, reinstating it in its natural form, the form that it should have had all along.

One must merge one form of darkness with another, and then wait for the darkness to be tinged with the rosiness of the fateful dawn to come

Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly matters. What's written on your form is far more important.