It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.
We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they're Not.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.
The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
