Shaped Quotes

626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. — Gerald Durrell
My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like… — David Sedaris
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as… — David Foster Wallace
I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when… — Janet Fitch
There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what… — Kij Johnson
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. — Amy Tan
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap… — Stephen Fry
I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you." You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful… — Lucy Christopher
The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the… — Lurlene McDaniel
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs… — Terry Pratchett
You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with… — Emma McLaughlin
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. — Terry Pratchett
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up… — Agatha Christie
Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning. — Jim Butcher
Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential.… — Maria V. Snyder
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. — Lucy Grealy
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. — Carol Shields
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories.… — John Marsden
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear. — William James
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in… — Jonathan Safran Foer
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like… — Shashi Tharoor
There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a… — Alison Goodman
Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for… — Margaret Atwood

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