“One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.” ThinkingTryingRealityFilmFormTermOne ThingAchieveCreationDesigner Author:Ken Adam
“The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.” LightAgeWantedFormCertainLinesOne ThingGoes OnFemaleStuckSillyColourIdolsCompositionArrangements Book:De Kooning: a centennial exhibition Source: De Kooning: a centennial exhibition
“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.” PeopleIfsWayWellsLongHas BeensEndsEnoughFormOne ThingStupidElementsKingdomsNationalismScotlandSpectrumCivicsScottishEthnicity Author:Neal Ascherson
“A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.” FormThreeFocusOne ThingStageDesignColorModelsSeparatingOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWould BeAmericaFormCoursesNationsLibertyUnited StatesOne ThingStandardsIdealsCampaignsPropagandaConceptionImperialismGlobalizationMaterialisticStandards Of Living Author:Ann Bridge
“From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.” WayWantWritingLooksLittlesFilmFormNextOne ThingWeekMediaTelevisionProductsFinalsExperimentsSatisfyingScopeInvolvementStandpointNext Week Author:Seth MacFarlane
“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.” PeopleHumansDoeFormSocialWealthHuman BeingsAnimalNumbersStruggleOne ThingPaperClothesLowsSymbolsTitlesHumankindPlatesLicenseBadgesPrecedenceStand For SomethingLicense Plate Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.” PeopleLooksTwoFormIndividualOne ThingPartnershipMorphing Author:Joe Swanberg
“I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.” WritingLongPlayFormUsedComedyOne ThingTelevisionLateLong TimeScriptsComicProseLinksEssaysScreenplaysNew Yorkers Author:Steve Martin
“As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.” IfsWantUseFormSoundOne ThingStageShapesPerformancesAtmosphereImagery Author:Marilyn Manson
“You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.” InspirationalFormGoalVisionOne ThingThickThick And ThinThrough Thick And Thin Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women
“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.” IfsFacesFormNumbersOne ThingThousandMathematicsStructureSizeMathematical Author:Alexander Grothendieck
“One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.” IfsWayTryingMatterHardFormNightCertainSufferingChoicesProcessDarkOne ThingMissingSeekingCriticalGods WillTreatmentRipeDark NightFruition Author:Tim Farrington
“We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists - even if they're decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there's a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that's called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing?” IfsPersonsStillsSoulSelfFormUniverseEnergyOne ThingNotionPreservesHeatPreservationMoleculesMorphing Author:Mike Cahill
“One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly good at bringing literary strategies and form to experience (at least the good ones are).” HumansFormOne ThingStrategyMemoirLive By Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.” IdeasStatesBodyFormLanguageCan DoNovelOne ThingConnectionsInstrumentsImperfectTrappedFind MeSkullsConveying Author:Michael Helm