I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption. Naomi Benaron
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. Mahatma Gandhi
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston churchill
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.Karl Heinrich Marx
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. Harold Brodkey
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice. Martin Amis
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. Aristotle
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him. Ramakrishna
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me. Jonathan Ames
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. Margaret Atwood
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form? Anne McCaffrey
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. Rick Barry