It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow. — PJ Harvey 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
I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions. — David Folkenflik Copy Share Image
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people,… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we… — Stephen Baxter 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
Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of… — Olivo Barbieri Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to keep myself in basketball shape and take care of my body while I can. — Terry Rozier Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters… — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets,… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes. — Gerrit Noordzij Copy Share Image
Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.” — Hesiod Copy Share Image
I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
