Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out. — Kai Ryssdal Copy Share Image
A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others. — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied… — Vera John-Steiner Copy Share Image
It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size... — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care. — Roelof Botha Copy Share Image
I've learned that it comes in so many different shapes and sizes, and that communities with autism are extremely supportive of one… — Brigette Lundy-Paine Copy Share Image
The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their… — Matt Shultz Copy Share Image
I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's… — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures,… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
You know how many stunning women told me they can't stand a good-looking man? ... Women feel secure with an ugly guy… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You know, the girls, they are more unstable emotionally than us. I'm sure everybody will say it's true even the girls (laughter).… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The golf course is always in good shape. Paul Latshaw does a reasonable job. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image