Shape Quotes

2138 quotes by 1696 authors

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a… — Shawn Johnson
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to… — Salman Rushdie
There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the… — Karen Horney
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but… — Olive Schreiner
The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem… — Douglas Adams
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread,… — Alexander Hamilton
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and… — Ron Perlman
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. — William Wordsworth
When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and… — Eddie Mathews
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess… — Martin Amis
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which… — Justin Winsor
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the… — Terry Pratchett
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. — Arthur Miller
Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way,… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is… — Robert Rauschenberg
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish… — Mark Rothko
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for… — Ann Patchett
I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my… — Joe Frazier

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