The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. Lovecraft

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold

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.
Hannah Arendt

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Douglas Horton

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Philip Pullman

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
Barry White

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
Megan Fox

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
Sandra Day O'Connor

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry A. Kissinger

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

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.
Charles Babbage