Best Form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 18

“Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.”

Way Body Form Healthy Cancer Experiments Related Healthy Life Healthy Body

Author:Paul Davies

“We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.”

Needs Different Form Brainwashing

Author:Clarissa Ward

“I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.”

Men Ideas Form Attention Style Very Good Boring Suits Agents Typical Looking Good

Author:Guy Ritchie

“Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.”

Ifs Needs Form Stuff Simple Car Bunch Superiors Make Sense Bike Transportation

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.”

Children Form Parent Party Abuse Child Abuse

Author:Dennis Miller

“My goals are so high that I don't have time to relax, in any way shape or form.”

Way Form Goal Shapes Relax Time To Relax

Author:Kevin Hart

“Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.”

Ifs Way Humans Children Form Communication Caring Sexuality Bonding

Author:Gloria Steinem

“What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.”

Thinking Needs Kind Dream Action Form Values Kindness Violence Talent Conflict Ambition Everyday Resolution Nurturing Conflict Resolution Using Your Talents

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.”

Form Music Is Hip Hop Hips Hops American Music

Author:Nas

“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema”

Form Silent Cinema

Book:Hitchcock

Source: Hitchcock

“The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .”

Form Order Aspiration Rebellion

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.”

Form Seeing Poet Unique Originals Affair Poetry Is Sanity

Author:Philip Larkin

“Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”

Knows Should Form Wave Conventional Hurricanes

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.”

Beautiful Form Lines

Book:Painterly Approach

Source: Painterly Approach

“The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.”

Way Character Form Accepting Bases Colour Stable Unstable Instability Dealing With It

Author:Bridget Riley

“There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.”

Feels Ideas Real Reality Form Lying Behinds Issues Example Expression Draws Destruction Appearance Drawing Visuals Urges Capture Erase Outward Appearance

Author:Antoni Tapies

“The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.”

Has Beens Form Principles Achieve Design Development Conscious Welcome Serenity Effortless

Book:Gae Aulenti

Source: Gae Aulenti

“I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.”

Want Happens Form Black White Color Quiet Mass Edges Black And White Not Interested

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.”

Form Stuff Secret Painting Right Now Allowing Secret Life

Author:R. B. Kitaj

“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

Ifs World Way Writing Trying Art Facts Stories Earth Form Artist Order Force Natural Behinds Vision Novel Creation Objects Planets Chaos Driven Impulse Appropriate Screenplays Planet Earth

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.”

Way Real Film Form Water Painting Paint Bounds Planes Gravity Sculpture Pigment

Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.”

World Feels Mean Important Form Artist Given Waiting Results This World Painting Various Surface Contemporary Painter Landscape Visible Productive Internals Stimulus

Author:Edward Betts

“War is the highest form of modern art.”

Art War Form Modern Highest Modernism Modern Art

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.”

Done Form Voice Steps Color Threshold

Author:Michele Cassou

“The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.”

Knows Way I Can Done Problem Form Know How Air Figures Painting Standards Matisse

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.”

Trying I Can Ideas Form Common Study Common Sense

Author:Marquis de Lafayette

“Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day will help reinforce your desires to attain what you set out to achieve.”

Helping Able Form Desire Achieve Phrases Mapping

Book:Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

Source: Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.”

Film Form Actors Born Rooms Pieces Paper Thirds Cameras Finals Finished Editing

Author:Robert Bresson

“There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe.”

Form Universe Combination Atoms Dna

Author:Carl Sagan

“Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.”

“I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen”

Heart May Today Faces Form Desire Christ Vision Grace Wise My Heart Eternal All Things Let Me Eternity Brave Thee Yield Constraints Saviour Pilgrim Amen Leading Me Changing My Life

Book:A diary of private prayer

Source: A diary of private prayer

“We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.”

People Want Hard Form Community Vision Grace Hard Work Clubs Surround Clique Shared Vision

Author:Philip Yancey

“You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms.”

World Form Night Energy Sleep Journey Source Return Draws Every Night Phases Dreamless Sleep

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.”

People Giving Inspiration Form Color Mets Offers Areas South Landscape Regions Valleys Starks Fertile Lush

Author:Peter Sculthorpe

“My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.”

Wells Today Form Dad Drug My Dad Come Up Grades Leukemia

Author:Tom DeLonge

“The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.”

Knows Ideas Seems Form Universe Stars Numbers Planets Arrogant Considering Unlikely

Author:Stephen Hawking

“If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.”

Ifs Knows Mind Whole Would Be Kids Form Teacher Taught Bigger Whole Life Mercury

Author:Axl Rose

“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

Thinking Years Different Form Five Imagine Heard Hundred Years Ago Cat Madness Stranger Tricks Likes Imagine That Yards Grey Present Day

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.”

“All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.”

Age Form Doubt Discovery Factors No Doubt Unconscious Psychics Symbolism Credible Memories Dreams Reflections Archetype

Author:Carl Jung

“The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.”

Wells Looks Inspiration Beautiful Faces Form Heaven Women Sweet Madness Lovely Gentle Admiration Suggestions Sweetness Beautiful Women Delirium Fervor Women Beauty Lovely Woman

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.”

Art Made Form Purpose Divine Holy Essence Mere Complexes Patient Storytelling Colour Magician Secrecy Medieval Symbolic Pondering Portraiture Talismans

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.”

Way Reality Spiritual Form Materials Heavenly Declaration Baptism Coronation

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton

“But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.”

Men Humans Important Form Political Social Interest Human Beings Animal Relation Fellows Absorbing Political Animals

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.”

Kind Form Hate All Kinds Substance Flattery Earnest

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases.”

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