#form

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. ↗

— Billy Carter

#brother #conform #i #image #lot

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#allergic #army #during #europe #got

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. ↗

— Robert Conklin

#creates #feeling #into #more #resistance

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form. ↗

— Bob Crosby

#always #any #appreciation #bing #form

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#enough #fortunate #guys #heavyweights #i

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. ↗

— Ray Romano

#audience #comedy #format #gratification #i

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid. ↗

— Ray Romano

#common #common denominator #denominator #form #go

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #fashion #form #intolerable #months

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#form #schizophrenia #socially #writing