Quotes About Form

The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.

If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjustment to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program." The

My own definition of the novel as a form would be that is is an exploration of the variety of life, through realistic prose narrative, in the hope of finding s pattern. (The Modern Writer and His World, pg 24)

My own definition of the novel as a form would be that it is an exploration of the variety of life, through realistic prose narrative, in the hope of finding a pattern. (The Modern Writer and His World, pg 24)

Personally I liked best of all the three-centered beings dwelling on the planet 'Saturn ' Their outer form is quite unlike ours, resembling that of the bird-being, 'raven. '"It is interesting to remark, by the way, that for some reason or other these raven-beings are found not only on *

Babies move more than books and aren't as conveniently shaped.

Babies move more than books and aren't as conveniently shaped.

Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind.

the user puts his feet together and the legs up making the form assume a butterfly-wing shape; thus the name, butterfly guard.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

You'll eventually have to realize that you can't spiritualize anything that is not spirit, which means you can't really spiritualize anything in the universe of form. The truly spiritual is only outside of it. That is where you really belong, and will eventually return.

Physical reality is not a dead and empty stage on which Life evolves. Every physical form, as well as every nonphysical form, is Light that has been shaped by consciousness. No form exists apart from consciousness. There is not one planet in the Universe that does not have an active level of consciousness, although it may not be what we recognize

In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well thought out, and those who aim at beautiful language, beauty of form. This contest may last a very long time; each side has a fifty-fifty chance. Only the poet can rightfully demand that verse be beautiful and nothing but.

The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.

And my eyes, too, have been opened," Krampus said. "For I clearly see that mankind has not yet forgotten who they are. That deep down their wild spirit still burns. That they need only a little nudge to be set free." Krampus grinned, beamed. "And I will always be there to give them that nudge . . . in some shape or form, no matter what games the gods may play.

Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul.

Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

If, forgetting the respect due to the Creator, I were to attempt a criticism of creation, I would say 'Less matter, more form!

Fascynowa?y go formy graniczne, w?tpliwe i problematyczne, jak ektoplazma somnambulików, pseudomateria, emanacja kataleptyczna mózgu, która w pewnych wypadkach rozrasta?a si? z ust u?pionego na ca?y stó?, nape?nia?a ca?y pokój, jako bujaj?ca, rzadka tkanka, astralne ciasto, na pograniczu cia?a i ducha.

In the minds of many, one of Winston's Churchill's most famous aphorisms cuts the conversation short: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."10 But this saying overlooks the fact that the governments vary in scope as well as form. In democracies the main alternative to majority rule is not dictatorship, but markets.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.