Quotes of: Formative Keyword

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Walter Murch

[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Institutes of the Christian Religion

What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.

Jerusalem

Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

The Rules

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.

Sky Beyond the Clouds

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Sugar Daddy

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

Iss all regulated Simon, everything in this country is. Yow can't scratch yer arse without some cunt filling o form abaht it.

Shark

the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

Shiver

Western "freedom" is a sophisticated form of control.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Men Explain Things to Me

Somewhere out there, a higher form of sadism, won the first round. Well, screw that. I'm not ready to be pwned.

Memories With Maya

Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

Mayfly Requiem

You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom. Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you.

Master of Stupidity

The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

Life Form

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Last and Lost Poems

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Lear