Quotes of: Formative Keyword

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

Judy Holliday

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Mary Astell

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

Caleb Cushing

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It's an interesting opportunity to do a long-form character and really have the time to find the nuance over an extended period of time. You can really dig deep.

Michelle Monaghan

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Edith Sitwell

Detective Park Doo-Man: Once this dries, the stain will form the shape of the murderer's face.

Memories of Murder

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

James Mark Baldwin

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Mark Strand

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

Thurston Moore

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Frans de Waal

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane

I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

Lee Smith

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

W. H. Auden

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Gregg Easterbrook

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Goldwin Smith

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Catherine Tate

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

Penelope Spheeris