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.
We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.