Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
Dee Hock

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar

Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
John Travolta

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
Simon Travaglia

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Tecumseh

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
Patton Oswalt

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Patton Oswalt

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda

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

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
Richard Schickel