Shapes Quotes:

Behavior shapes emotions.

- A. J. Jacobs

source: A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

topic: Shapes, Emotion, Behavior

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

- A. J. P. Taylor

source: 'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10

topic: Wickedness, Shapes, Blunders

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.

- A. R. Ammons

source: A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

topic: Numbers, Shapes, Patterns, Tempting

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

- A.S.A. Harrison

source: A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK

topic: Men, Shapes, Reason

Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Memories, Night, Shapes, Firsts And Lasts

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

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Country, Shapes, Apes

I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit

- Aceyalone

source: Song: The Guidelines, 1998

topic: Giving, Hip Hop, Shapes, Escapists

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

- Adam Gopnik

topic: Drawing, Shapes, Shade

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

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Evil, Shapes, Assuming, Mein Kampf, Personification

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.

- Adoniram Judson

topic: Prayer, Shapes, Matter

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

- Aidan Chambers

topic: Wall, Shapes, Rooms

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

- Al Jourgensen

topic: Lessons, Shapes, Pay, Dividends, Hard Lessons

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

- Alain Robert

topic: Hiking, Shapes, Facts

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.

- Alan Alda

topic: Catholic, Doe, Shapes, Concussions

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

- Alan Cumming

source: Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.247, Canongate Books

topic: Abuse, Shapes, Opinion

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Dream, Law, Shapes

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.

- Alan Shepard

topic: Zero, Shapes, Able, Acceleration, Zero Gravity

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

- Albert Camus

topic: Fate, Giving, Shapes

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

- Albert Camus

topic: Profound, Shapes, Becoming, Profound Thoughts

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Israel, Earth, Shapes

I love sunglasses, I have all shapes and colors.

- Alessandra Ambrosio

source: "Model Minute: Alessandra Ambrosio Loves Melissa's Shoes". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.

topic: Color, Sunglasses, Shapes

It isn't hard to stay in shape.

- Alessandra Ambrosio

topic: Shapes

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

- Alexis Arguello

topic: Shapes, Conditioning, Shows

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Shapes, Deeds, Virtue

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

- Ali Sina

topic: Differences, Earth, Shapes

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...

- Alice James

topic: Book, Density, Shapes

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

- Alicia Sacramone

topic: Body, Shapes, Feels, 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.

- Allan Gurganus

source: FaceBook post by Allan Gurganus from Mar 20, 2011

topic: Simple, Shapes, Littles, Little Love, You've Changed

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

- Allen Johnson

topic: Shapes, Getting In Shape, Take Time, Time Off

So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.

- Allen Wheelis

topic: Past, Years, Shapes

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.

- Alvar Aalto

source: Alvar Aalto, Karl Fleig, Elissa Aalto (1990). “Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)”

topic: Design, Tragedy, Shapes, Tragedy And Comedy

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Two, Shapes, Temples, Consonants

To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Believe, Shapes, Action

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

- Andre Malraux

topic: Destiny, Shapes, Witchcraft

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

- Andrew Bird

source: "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016.

topic: Morning, Trying, Shapes

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

- Andy Grove

topic: Team, Fire, Shapes, Fire Department

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

- Andy Stanley

topic: Attitude, Shapes, Belief

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

- Andy Summers

topic: Thinking, Hands, Shapes

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

- Angela Kinsey

topic: Women, Shapes

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

- Anis Mojgani

topic: Love Is, Broken, Shapes

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.

- Anita Baker

topic: Voice, People, Shapes

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.

- Anjelica Huston

topic: Looks, Mouths, Shapes

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Children, Knowing, Shapes

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

- Anne Ortlund

topic: Bad Day, Shapes, Circumstances

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

- Anne Truitt

source: Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

topic: Progress, Development, Shapes

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

- Anthony Rapp

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Acting, Shapes, Gym

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Shapes, Action, Taking Action, Forecasts

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

topic: Our World, Shapes, Language

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

- Antoni Tapies

source: "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.

topic: Space, Shapes, Firsts, Coordinator

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.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Shapes, Action, Craziness

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

- Aristotle

topic: Soul, Body, Shapes

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

- Aristotle

topic: Soul, Body, Shapes

If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Sports, Worry, Shapes

I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Looks, Care, Shapes, Turn Me

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

- Aron Ralston

source: Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

topic: Color, Shapes, Cameras, Convoluted

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.

- Art Spiegelman

topic: Shapes, Stuff, Exorcism

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Men, Tools, Shapes

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

- Arthur Smith

source: "Sun days" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

topic: Moon, Different, Shapes

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

- Asa Gray

source: Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

topic: Animal, Shapes, Individual

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.

- Asa Gray

source: Asa Gray (1877). “Darwinia: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism”

topic: Wind, Shapes, Sides

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

- Aubrey Beardsley

source: Matthew Sturgis, Aubrey Beardsley (1999). “Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography”, Overlook Books

topic: Eye, Drawing, Shapes

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

- Audre Lorde

topic: Mouths, Shapes, Flesh

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

- Barack Obama

source: Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Reform, delivered 9 September 2009

topic: Presidential, Shapes, Inspirational Presidential, Fear Of The Future

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

- Barry Lopez

topic: Giving, Imagination, Shapes

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Hair, Shapes, Sticks, Popsicles

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Use, Shapes, Wells

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.

- Ben Shahn

source: Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.49, Harvard University Press

topic: Shapes, Painting, Affair

Form is the shape of content...

- Ben Shahn

source: Ben Shahn (1967). “Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968”

topic: Shapes, Form

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Believe, World, Shapes, Finding Myself

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

topic: Thinking, Shapes, Way, Language Acquisition, Language Culture

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

topic: Numbers, Use, Shapes, Fractals

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

- Bertrand de Jouvenel

source: Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

topic: Democracy, Shapes, Patterns, Incubation

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Change, Different, Shapes

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

- Bette Davis

topic: Experience, Shapes, Rewards

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

- Bill Bruford

topic: Practice, Shapes, Gigs, Best Practices

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

- Bill Condon

topic: Thinking, Shapes, Dramatic

It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.

- Bill Loguidice

topic: Loss, Shapes, Firsts

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

- Bill Luff

topic: Perspective, Shadow, Shapes, Orchestration

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Democracy, Library, Shapes

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.

- Bill Nighy

topic: Body, Shapes, Suits

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

- Billy Tauzin

topic: Thinking, New Orleans, Shapes, Levees

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

- Black Elk

topic: Inspirational, Together, Shapes, Indian, Indian Wisdom

The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.

- Blake Griffin

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Shapes, Sincerity

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

- Blanka Vlasic

topic: Shapes, Helping, Help Me

Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all children. They are like snowflakes with their own patterns and their own shapes and their own sizes.

- Bob Benson

source: Bob Benson (1987). “He Speaks Softly-LP”, W Pub Group

topic: Children, Unique, Shapes, Clauses, Boiler

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

- Bob Goff

topic: People, Shapes, Shelves, Shelf Life

God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

- Bob Goff

topic: Grace, Shapes, Size

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.

- Bode Miller

topic: Team, Racing, Shapes, Ski Racing

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

- Bonnie Raitt

topic: Music, Shapes, Feminine, Masculine And Feminine

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

- Brandi Chastain

topic: Opportunity, Doing Me, Shapes, Come Back To Me

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

- Brenda Song

topic: Machines, Body, Shapes

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.

- Brendan Gill

source: 1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.

topic: Water, Shapes, Domes, Parthenon, Skyscraper

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

- Bret Bielema

topic: Shapes, Want, Way

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

- Brian Aldiss

source: "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.

topic: Important, Shapes, Standards

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

- Brian Friel

source: Brian Friel, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in conversation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

topic: Past, Shapes, Facts

I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.

- Brian Johnson

topic: Beautiful, World, Shapes

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

- Brian Jordan

topic: Football, Shapes

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

- Brian May

topic: Song, Albums, Shapes

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

- Brian Tracy

topic: Single Mom, Purpose, Shapes, Live With Purpose

When you have a gown, there's much more to be concerned about. Where is this crease falling? Are you making a weird shape with the dress? Are you doing the designer justice? With a bathing suit, it's more about you and the mood you convey.

- Brooklyn Decker

source: "Brooklyn Decker is everywhere before movies' debut". Interview with Samantha Critchell, www.yahoo.com. May 17, 2012.

topic: Fall, Justice, Shapes

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

- Bruce Babbitt

source: Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

topic: Eight, Years, Shapes

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

- Bruce Vilanch

topic: Gay, Shapes, Just Being, Stigma

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

- Bryan Clay

topic: People, Training, Shapes

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

- Bryan Stevenson

topic: Justice, Shapes, Outcomes, Culpability

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.

- Cal Ripken, Jr.

topic: Careers, Shapes, Wanted

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Children, Vision, Shapes

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

- Carlisle Floyd

topic: Thinking, Shapes, Scene, Pacing

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

- Carlos Fuentes

topic: Character, Long, Shapes, Long Lines

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

- Carly Simon

topic: Trying, Shapes, Pleasure

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

- Carol Ann Duffy

source: "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

topic: Writing, Arriving, Shapes

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

- Carolina Herrera

source: FaceBook post by Carolina Herrera from Jul 09, 2012

topic: Fashion, Eye, Shapes

I always find sports-related ways to stay in shape...

- Cassie Scerbo

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Shapes, Way, Sports Related

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.

- Chaim Potok

topic: Writing, Fiction, Shapes, Non Fiction

Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?

- Chalene Johnson

topic: Athlete, Why Not, Shapes

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

- Charisma Carpenter

topic: Pregnancy, Shapes, Gains

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Broken, Expectations, Shapes

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

- Charles James

topic: Variation, Shapes, Silhouettes

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

- Charles Rennie Mackintosh

topic: Art, Flower, Shapes

I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.

- Charlotte Bingham

topic: Hate, Body, Shapes

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

- Chazz Palminteri

topic: Choices, Forever, Shapes, Bronx, Wasted Talent

I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever.

- Chelsea Handler

topic: Long, Effort, Shapes

You shape your own destiny.

- Chet Atkins

topic: Destiny, Shapes

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

- Chris Brasher

topic: School, Office, Shapes, School Hours

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

- Christian Dior

source: "The Master Of The Haute Couture's Museum", Balenciaga Museum, June 6, 2011.

topic: Curves, Female, Shapes, Female Form

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

- Christina, Queen of Sweden

topic: Shapes, Speak, Metaphor, Adapting

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

- Christine Lahti

topic: Heart, Class, Shapes

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

- Christopher Columbus

source: Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

topic: House, Shapes, Tents, Chimneys

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

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Perception, Shapes, Embedded, Daily Experience

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

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Shapes, Who We Are, Madness, Brisingr

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.

- Christopher Reeve

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Body, Shapes, Problem, Paralysis

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

- Clare of Assisi

topic: Shapes, Mimicking, Compassionate Love, Christian Love

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

- Clark Coolidge

topic: Quality, Density, Shapes, Vectors

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.

- Clive Bell

topic: Color, Mixing, Shapes

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

- Clive Standen

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Climbing, Hiking, Shapes

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

- Cobi Jones

topic: Thinking, Shapes

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.

- Colin Farrell

topic: Shapes, Way, Form

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

- Colin S. Smith

source: Colin S. Smith (2016). “Momentum: Pursuing God's Blessings Through the Beatitudes”, p.178, Moody Publishers

topic: Shapes, Worship, Lifestyle

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

- Colleen Hanabusa

source: "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

topic: Our World, Shapes, Recognition

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

- Compay Segundo

topic: Strong, Shapes, Living My Life

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

- Constance Hale

source: Constance Hale (2013). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose”, p.11, Three Rivers Press

topic: Shapes, Flesh, Bones

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

- Constant Lambert

source: "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Toute réaction est vraie", p. 91, 1985.

topic: Sound, Shapes, Matter

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

- Crispin Glover

source: "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

topic: Getting Older, Shapes, Twenties

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.

- Criss Angel

topic: Thinking, Discipline, Shapes

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

- Cynthia Ozick

topic: Sorrow, Shapes, Way, Manifold, Born To Die

Each of us has the potential to contribute ... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Opportunity, World, Shapes

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Shapes

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Numbers, Mind, Shapes, Decimals

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.

- Darren Johnson

topic: Attitude, Keys, Shapes

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

- Dave Grohl

topic: Albums, Records, Shapes

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

- David Bressoud

topic: Shapes, Infinite, Modern

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

- David Frum

topic: History, Shapes, Facts

Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

- David Icke

topic: Drug, President, Shapes, Walkers

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

- David Levithan

source: David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.158, Egmont UK

topic: Together, Pieces, Shapes, Puzzle Piece

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

- David Suzuki

topic: Shapes, Canada, Habit

We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again

- David Whyte

topic: Self, World, Shapes

A good woman comes in all shapes and colors. When you find her, adore her.

- Delano Johnson

topic: Color, Good Woman, Shapes

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.

- Derek Jeter

topic: Differences, Shapes, Easier

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

- Derrick Jensen

source: "Against Prometheus". Interview with Frank Smecker, www.counterpunch.org. October 28, 2009.

topic: Stories, World, Shapes

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

- Deval Patrick

topic: President, Shapes, Barack

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

- Diane Ackerman

topic: World, Shapes, Chaos, Watercolors

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

- Dolly Parton

topic: Dog, Looks, Shapes

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

- Dolph Lundgren

topic: Athlete, Work Out, Shapes, Great Athlete

In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal.

- Don Berliner

topic: Sight, Abnormal, Shapes

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

- Douglass North

topic: Ignorance, Shapes, Today

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Shapes

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

- Drew Gilpin Faust

source: "Installation address: Unleashing our most ambitious imaginings". Public Speech, Cambridge, www.harvard.edu. October 12, 2007.

topic: Mold, Heritage, Shapes, Transmit

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

- E. B. White

topic: Writing, Shapes

There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

- E. Lockhart

topic: Years, Hot, Shapes, Squeezing, Pretzels

Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

- E. V. Knox

topic: Golf, Numbers, Shapes, Dentistry

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Quality, Shapes, Consciousness

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

- Ed Westwick

topic: Writing, Needs, Shapes

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

- Edgar Lee Masters

source: Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.188, The Floating Press

topic: Fate, Mirrors, Shapes

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...

- Edith Sitwell

topic: Art, Magic, Shapes, Uniformity, Craze

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

- Edward Bond

source: Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

topic: Writing, Negativity, Shapes

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

- Edward Carpenter

source: Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

topic: Years, Ideas, Shapes, Outlines

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

- Edward Furlong

topic: Shapes, Scared

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

- Edward Said

topic: Men, Silence, Shapes, Disfigurement

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

- Edward Witten

topic: Giving, Different, Shapes, Basic Things, Vibrate

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Degrees, Literature, Shapes

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

topic: Ideas, Shapes, Fierce

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

- Elizabeth Hawes

source: Elizabeth Hawes (1942). “Why is a Dress?: Who? What? When? Where?”

topic: Goes On, Shapes, Want, Women Want

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

- Elizabeth Hawes

source: Elizabeth Hawes (1954). “It's Still Spinach”

topic: Beautiful, Two, Shapes

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

- Elizabeth Janeway

topic: Dream, Art, Shapes

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Past, Shapes, Way

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

topic: Understanding, Shapes, Goodness

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goal should be health and stamina.

- Emme

topic: Goal, Shapes, Size

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

- Eppu Nuotio

topic: Writing, World, Shapes

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Future, Power, Shapes, Predicting, Predicting The Future

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Shapes

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

- Eric Rohmer

source: "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

topic: Civilization, Shapes, Film

The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.

- Eric S. Raymond

topic: Iphone, Shapes, Trouble

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.

- Erik Larson

topic: Writing, Shapes, Helping, Turn-on

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

- Erik Naggum

topic: Thinking, Shapes, Way

The materials shape your idea.

- Erik Spiekermann

topic: Ideas, Shapes, Materials

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

- Ernest Shackleton

source: Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Men, Shapes, Mark

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

- Ernie Hudson

topic: Shapes, Guides, Found, Universal Truth

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

- Erwin McManus

topic: Character, Shapes, Your Future

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

- Erwin McManus

topic: Culture, Stories, Shapes

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

- Etty Hillesum

source: Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.258, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Destiny, Men, Shapes

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.

- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

topic: Needs, Slavery, Shapes