Shape Quotes
2138 quotes by 1696 authors
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Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an…
— Milan Kundera
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I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like…
— Shane Black
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I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines…
— Paul Rudnick
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We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying…
— Brian Andreas
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But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
— Virginia Woolf
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And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that…
— Michael Moorcock
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We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity,…
— Buzz Aldrin
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Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as…
— George Saunders
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Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.
— John Kessel
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There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.
— John Kessel
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And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
— Malala Yousafzai
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Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
— William Faulkner
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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm…
— Jonathan Franzen
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You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know…
— Colson Whitehead
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