KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Form


Share this page on

Showing 961-970 of 1107 quotes in the topic Form

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Abolish Abraham Abraham Lincoln African Before Brutal Continue Cuba Descendants Enslavement Even Form Hardly Lincoln Presidency Slavery States Thirty United United States Until Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

~Flea

Topics: Am Best Books Deeply Form Going Honor Huge Huge Part Literature Love Part Played Sacred Shaping Story Things View Who Writing I Am I Love

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: About Affecting Commerce Country Directly Fact Field Form Industrial Legislation Manufacture Now Opened Vast Very Women

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: Did Form God His Me Say Service Spoke Take Voice

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Alzheimer Associated Became Common Demented Dementia Disease Distinguishes Factor Form More Overnight Sudden

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Accessible Art Art Form Been Chalk Costs Easily Elitist Film Form Get Just Medium Money Much Need Painting Paper Pen Pencil Pick Piece Rock Sculpture So Much Money Stick Then Until Up Very Whatever Writing You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.

~Frances Conroy

Topics: Because Form Her Picture Things Total

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Accidents Affairs Almost Always Any Concerning Depend Even Experience False Form Future Hard Judgment Many Nay Out See Shifting Turn Wise World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Ability Altered Any Clear Cut Economical Emerge Essential Form Look More Place Polished Revised Satisfying See Sentence Sharp Shrink Snap Superfluous Ultimately Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Also Covered Elegant Form Just Nice Over Packaged Proteins Series Up Virus Dna

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Aeschylus Les Brown Bill Burr Robert A. Heinlein C. S. Lewis Henry David Thoreau Denzel Washington Steven Wright

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1779 - Clement Clarke Moore

1796 - Thomas Bulfinch

1848 - Vilfredo Pareto

1864 - Franklin Knight Lane

1865 - Lord Northcliffe

1892 - Walter Benjamin

1904 - Rudolf Arnheim

1905 - Dorothy Fields

1917 - Robert Conquest

1919 - Iris Murdoch

Birthdays on July 15th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Christmas Forgiveness History New Year's Respect Teacher Time Work