Shaped Quotes

626 quotes by 525 authors

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle. — Daniel Bernoulli
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still… — Jared Diamond
Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This,… — Manly Hall
The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has… — Rene Dubos
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers,… — Helen Dunmore
Music has shaped menâ€™s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who… — Hedi Slimane
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited… — Amy Bloom
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body,… — Antonio Damasio
I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the… — Cathleen Falsani
For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch… — Aino Kallas
Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into… — Chris Murray
The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be… — Ruth Handler
Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She never went to… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features… — Bennie Maupin
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings… — Michel de Certeau
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status… — C.D. Wright
Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions. — Emily Rodda
I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline… — Hope Edelman
Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our… — Hope Edelman
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck.… — Lewis Hyde

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