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Quotes About Form

the result of her having filled out a form, years ago, when she'd joined Lyke, and having clicked the "submit" button. Which, come to think of it, was a pretty strange bit of semantics
~ Neal Stephenson
Gud er væren som blir form. Og det samme er du.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery
~ Nelson DeMille
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
~ Ngaio Marsh
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing..
~ Nicholas Sparks
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
~ I. M. Pei
I do not know how anyone can mould anyone.
~ Amrita Singh
I have learnt from many experienced players in the Mumbai team as well as the India A team how to be consistent. That helps a lot to ensure that I don't get into bad form.
~ Prithvi Shaw
I call architecture frozen music.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
~ Baz Luhrmann
'Hamilton' is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It's moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it's pretty hard to oversell it.
~ Rory O'Malley
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.
~ Edwin Catmull
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
~ Slobodan Milosevic
And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.
~ Standing Bear
It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
~ John D'Agata
She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.
~ Christina Dodd
I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
~ Christopher Hitchens
phenomenon has reappeared in a more troubling form with the holy alliance between the believers and what they can borrow or steal from the world of science. Here is Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, a distinguished professor
~ Christopher Hitchens
See form, see line, see light, see shadow. See relationships of lines. The model is a collection of these elements, not a body.
~ Christopher Moore
Se decía: un trasero bien formado en el espacio no es más que un trasero bien formado, pero si le pones un trasero bien formado a una mujer tan ingeniosa como ella y le aplicas un poco de turbación lo que obtienes son… bueno, problemas.)
~ Christopher Moore
Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.
~ Christopher Paolini
A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful. A sword that could not fulfill its function would be ugly to my eyes no matter how fair its shape, not even if it were adorned with the finest jewels and the most intricate engraving.
~ Christopher Paolini
Attentive readers will also note the significance of the form he uses for much of his teaching—the parable. The parable is the teaching tool of the sage, indicated by the fact that the Greek term for "parable" (parabol?) is used in Greek versions of the OT to translate the Hebrew word "proverb" (m?š?l ), a central form of wisdom teaching in the OT. The Jesus of the Gospels is a sage.
~ Tremper Longman III