Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
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.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
We operate in a world where you can have a package from Amazon arrive on your doorstep the same day; where Uber has a private driver at your front door within minutes; but when it comes to Congress, it takes three weeks for someone to get a form letter response to his or her questions.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
I love nonfiction the most. It's hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that's why I'm not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They're hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he's terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way.
Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in a different way: they're highly charged, a slightly newer form, and inherently more contemporary.
The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
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.
