Shape Quotes

2138 quotes by 1683 authors

A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,â€ he replied firmly. â€œHawks, too, are the same, whether they are… — Tamora Pierce
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment… — Cormac McCarthy
To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of… — Salman Rushdie
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box… — John Steinbeck
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape. — Sheri Reynolds
The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape. — Sheri L. Dew
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,… — Margaret Atwood
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's… — Unknown Author
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man… — James Allen
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a… — Ayn Rand
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,… — Tom Hodgkinson
Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life… — Lorrie Moore
God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.… — Diane Ackerman
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. — Brian Friel
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story… — Truman Capote
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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