For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable… — Jane Clayson Johnson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape. — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things. — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training;… — Benita Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
