Shape Quotes
2138 quotes by 1696 authors
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color…
— Vera Wang
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Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
— Rick Warren
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People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our…
— Joss Whedon
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and…
— Olivia Wilde
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the…
— A. N. Wilson
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My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I…
— Steven Wright
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
— William Butler Yeats
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
— Fareed Zakaria
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I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
— Helen Fisher
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North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up…
— Pat Conroy
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Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a…
— Lucy Grealy
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But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good…
— Dylan Thomas
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The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do?…
— Georges Perec
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I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
— Margaret Atwood
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...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
— Virginia Woolf
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[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could…
— Steve Martin
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