Shaped Quotes

626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors

Music has shaped men’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
We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of… — Robert Macfarlane
In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and… — Michael Meade
Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs. — Ana Castillo
The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have… — Amin Maalouf
We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a… — Otto Neurath
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could… — Amy Waldman
I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and… — George H. W. Bush
We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and… — Edsger Dijkstra
I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another… — Leonardo da Vinci

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