Quotes of: Art-form Keyword

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Tobias Wolff

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

Silence

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Reflections

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gene Fowler

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Lewis Carroll

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

Peter Diamandis

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

Paul Kantner

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Paul Nitze

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

Peter Singer

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Paul Watson

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

Robert Irwin

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Robert Kiyosaki

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Ryan Lilly

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

Stephen Gardiner

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

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

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Travis Barker

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

Tom Metzger

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Tim O'Reilly