I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.
To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
