Quotes About Form

I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in a different way: they're highly charged, a slightly newer form, and inherently more contemporary.

You don't want to let your form slip because it can be hard to get back from that.

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of you.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Tis my humor as much to regard the form as the substance, and the advocate as much as the cause, as Alcibiades ordered we should: and every day pass away my time in reading authors without any consideration of their learning; their manner is what I look after, not their subject. And just so do I hunt after the conversation of any eminent wit, not that he may teach me, but that I may know him, and that knowing him, if I think him worthy of imitation, I may imitate him.

Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form which would surely have allowed him to breed with a greater selection of females than average, could still be so miserable. By contrast, other males, scarred by neglect, riddled with diseases, spurned by their kind, were occasionally known to radiate a contentment that seemed to arise from something more enigmatic than mere stupidity.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Moreover, it is not entirely without significance that true love was, in Platonic philosophy -- but also, as you know, in a whole sector, a whole domain of Christian spirituality and mysticism -- the form par excellence of the true life. Since Platonism, true love and the true life have traditionally belonged together, and to a large extend Christian Platonism will take up this theme.

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la forma humanoide con simetría bilateral, la misma forma que utiliza Hollywood para representar a los alienígenas en el espacio, no tiene por qué aplicarse necesariamente a toda la vida inteligente.

the sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content

But the larger a man grows in his own inner darkness, the more his outer form diminishes.

What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.

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.

proportioned.

when the struggle for existence was so savage that no vitality which was not founded in a gigantic form could have even a possibility of survival.

Fire has no form of its own, but clings to the burning object. Light clings to darkness. —Cogitor philosophy

Things change in the Imperium. Alliances form and dissolve on whims.

We are human not because of our physical form, but because of our underlying nature. Even when fitted with a machine body, a man may have a heart and soul Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but not always. People made of flesh can be monsters, too. —PTOLEMY, Laboratory Sketches