The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. — April Greiman Copy Share Image
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new… — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way. — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and… — Marcus du Sautoy 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
That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal,… — Eva Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it's the one truth that does the most to… — Michael Spencer Copy Share Image
I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny,… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama. — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
“I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Larry and I, and a bunch of our colleagues, were sitting on great stories that needed to get out to an audience… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
