Quotes of: Life-forms Keyword

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

Albert Einstein

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask that person. More often than not, however, it isn’t important to know. It’s o...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue to be one of the most valued and valuable expressions of the literary art. To render and maintain it so, howeve...

The Life of Cesare Borgia

I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned, or a style of frock, a real public person, even a make of car. Then, I thought, I had a measure, I could guage the qu...

Sweet Tooth

Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster. To these the rewilders quietly voiced a sad and stinging reply. The most dangerous experiment is already ...

Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, “I know what Zen is,” or “I have attained enlightenment.” This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.” - “Whe...

Shunryu Suzuki

The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the verge of understanding something large and important. It seemed to him that this moment—the light and wind, the sweep of fields, the fall...

Mystery Ride

The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in ...

Eifelheim

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

Anna Netrebko

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

Bruce Glover

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

Dick Cavett

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

Gerard Way

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

Kevin Smith

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Mike Birbiglia

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

The Tale of the Unknown Island

The devil appears in many forms, but the most nefarious of all are tax forms.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Steve Earle

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

L. Lionel Kendrick

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Algernon Sidney

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.

David Foster Wallace