Shapes Quotes

• No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Women
  • Control
  • Dark

• I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Like
  • Shapes
  • Feminine

• Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Family
  • Love
  • Values

• As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

  

  Confucius
  • Circumstances
  • Shapes
  • Wise Man

• When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth - I am very proud that I have stayed as I was.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Proud
  • Model
  • Teeth

• And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Faults
  • Jealousy
  • Jealous

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Different
  • Direction
  • Speed

• No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

  

  Irving Howe
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Space

• I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

  

  Taliesin
  • Been
  • Shapes
  • Consistent

• Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Kind

• I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Women
  • Age
  • Body

• My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Body
  • Shapes

• Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Nature
  • Screaming
  • Natures

• Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Relationship

• The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Youth
  • Shapes

• According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Body
  • Fly
  • Relation

• Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Excuse
  • Excuses

• You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Life
  • Looks

• They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Kids
  • Stills
  • Performing

• Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • World
  • Fall
  • Speech

• Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Nature
  • Positive
  • Negative

• There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

  

  Charles James
  • Shapes
  • Variations
  • Silhouettes

• Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

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