Quotes of: Formative Keyword

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

The Dosadi Experiment

They took form in a bedroom, Khloe realized with a scowl. He noticed and gave her a sideways grin. Arrogant ass. Laugh it up, demon.

Death's Storm

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate

...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...

A Familiar Rain

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.

The Golem's Eye

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

On Growth and Form

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

Grave Peril

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

Gravity's Rainbow

, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

The Grammar of Science

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

Given

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

High Five

the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

The Hunger Games

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

It's a special form of scholarly neurosis,´ said Camel. `He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´

The British Museum Is Falling Down

Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.

Black Iris

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

Beginner's Luke

Eternity," I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond.

Bloodgifted

You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.

Blindness

So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.

Brother Odd

...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...

Book of Sketches

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

The Big Sleep