My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.