#forms

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#accepted #apple #beautifully #billing #brand

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market. ↗

— Vince Cable

#additional #bring #businesses #choice #competition

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#assertion #chief #coming #does #failed

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#begins #born #catalogue #cities #city

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#communication #define #electronic #evangelicals #financial

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#certain #corrupt #distinguish #dogs #guns

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#forms #gift #human #love #multiple

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#absurdity #audience #climbs #constantly #death