Shapes Quotes
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
Michael Ondaatje -
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
Hilary Mantel
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The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
Rick Bass -
The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.
Thomas Hardy -
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
Michael Sandel -
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
Ray Bradbury -
Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
I always feel like I'm in the best shape of my life for every fight I'm in.
Celestino Caballero
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I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.
Wanda Koop -
Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.
Anthony Robbins -
The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.
Teju Cole -
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
Steven Amsterdam -
I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.
Erin Andrews -
Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.
Kathryn Budig
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
Erwin Schrodinger -
One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.
Tom Vilsack -
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
Elvin Jones -
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.
Molly Ivins -
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
Stephen Covey -
Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.
Thomas Sowell
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Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
Erwin McManus -
I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe -
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
Ray Bradbury -
I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.
Dolly Parton