Quotes Tagged "form"

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividness and strangeness of the particular, but what is fresh in them is that they still experience the power of repetition, from which our first sense of the power of mastery comes. Though predictable is an ugly little world in daily life, in our first experience of it we are clued to the hope of a shapeliness in things. To see that power working on adults, you have to catch them out: the look of foolish happiness on the faces of people who have just sat down to dinner is their knowledge that dinner will be served. Probably, that is the psychological basis for the power and the necessity of artistic form...Maybe our first experience of form is the experience of our own formation...And I am not thinking mainly of poems about form; I’m thinking of the form of a poem, the shape of its understanding. The presence of that shaping constitutes the presence of poetry.

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

Hope is like melted sugar, even if it changes the form, it still tastes sweet. And caramelized hope tastes even more delicious..So, under any circumstances, we should keep on hoping for the best

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

Developing quotes is my favorite form of authoring.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!

He utilizes form for a striking lecture; young poets shiver inexperience, but thaw over their own work, fertilize magic.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.