Mould Quotes

107 Mould quotes by 88 unique authors

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something… — J. J. Abrams
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. — Charlotte Bronte
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. — Samuel Butler
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying… — Willa Cather
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony… — Alexander Fleming
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and… — Alexander Fleming
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because… — Hans Selye
I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you… — Steve Waugh
I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty… — Devon Aoki
We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man… — Shoghi Effendi
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that… — Joseph Beuys
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go… — Anita Brookner
If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play… — John McEnroe
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to… — W. Somerset Maugham
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of… — Robyn Davidson
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. — Hunter S. Thompson
A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to… — C.S. Lewis
I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the… — Roy Jenkins
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck… — Thomas Tusser
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets… — Samuel Rogers
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. — Michel de Montaigne

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