Shapes Quotations | Page 4

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

Form is the shape of content...

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

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

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

When a Dalmatian sees a cow he must be like, 'What the hell happened to him? I am high right now. That dalmatian is fat and smeary.' When the cow sees the Dalmatian he must be like, 'He looks amazing. I am so out of shape, this is ridiculous. My tits are on the ground here.

I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

God shapes the world by prayer.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Yeah, I have a pretty good idea. I'm just not going to say right now. We still have time to see. It depends how the rest of the club shapes up and what we need offensively, defensively and speed-wise.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

Behavior shapes emotions.

Behavior shapes beliefs.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

It isn't hard to stay in shape.

Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...

This is the shape I'm in for the tournament. I feel or I felt extremely good before the match, and I did train very, very hard to get ready for the tournament.

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

The fact that a film has been made about the championship is an example that the NCAA not only shapes college athletics, but also plays an important role in shaping American society.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Here's the thing: I'm not in shape.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

Your body language shapes who you are

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it's kind of hard to have a favorite and I'm not just being political, it's hard to have a favorite because each one is so specific as themselves.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author -- then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new.

Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.

Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.

Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future

I'm doing what I love. I'm enjoying the perks of the job-the travel. I am having a great time being a shape shifter and I'm really getting a kick out of it. I love my job.

The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so that it not only reinstates the concealed shape, but also enlarges it, imitating in this way the breast swelling that occurs during sexual arousal.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months.

I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

Context shapes who you are.

I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.