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Shaped Quotes by Carol Shields
- It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be…
- nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available…
- Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
More Shaped Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — Paul Auster
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My… — Drew Barrymore
- Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life,… — Glenn Beck
- Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair
- In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. — Maya Angelou
- The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer
- When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the… — Sun Tzu
- My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. — Drew Barrymore
- I don't wanna be shaped like a girl. I love being shaped like a woman, and trust me ladies, your man won't… — Miley Cyrus