Shapes Quotations | Page 2

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

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

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

I like clothes that are fashionable but also have great messages for lifestyle, and 360 does just that - the sweaters are for women of all shapes and sizes and are designed to allow a woman to feel beautiful and chic from the inside out.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections

You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhere, just be shape and size savvy!

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.

I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I'm back in London.

I definitely want to get in shape and be healthy again.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.

I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics

Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

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.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.