Shape Quotes

2138 quotes by 1696 authors

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the… — Karen Marie Moning
Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air. — Billie Letts
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until… — Louise Erdrich
Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught… — Leonard Cohen
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shapeâ€¦… — Alan Moore
Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if… — Ian Mcewan
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. — William Shakespeare
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading,… — Annie Proulx
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. — John Steinbeck
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image… — Graham Greene
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When… — James Redfield
He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of… — Cassandra Clare
I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same… — Clive Barker
A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the… — Li-Young Lee
How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by… — Tom Robbins
Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find… — Stacy Schiff
Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little… — Patrick Rothfuss
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, sheâ€™d left it in… — Karen Chance
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,… — William Shakespeare
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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