Quotes of: Formative Keyword

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Emma

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

The Elements of Typographic Style

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Flaubert's Parrot

Fort somehow turned the symbol of nerdiness into a visual aphrodisiac—Spanish fly in the form of solid black frames.

To the Fifth Power

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Frankenstein

A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.

The Fault in Our Stars

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Great House

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH.

GWG

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Heart of Darkness

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

Halfway to the Grave

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

The Hunger Games

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

The Art of War

Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.

Bring Up the Bodies

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Breaking Dawn

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Brideshead Revisited

Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Ben Shapiro

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

Daryl Hall

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Edward Sapir