Shapeless Quotes

54 quotes by 46 authors

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades… — Italo Calvino
I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as… — Julia Roberts
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes… — Ugo Betti
Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect… — John Donne
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. — William Shakespeare
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often. — John Donne
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown… — Adolf Hitler
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the… — Henry Adams
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass… — Celia Thaxter
Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in… — Rachel Zoe
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. — Michel de Montaigne
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what… — Leon Edel
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless… — Robert Grudin
I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with… — William Shakespeare
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. — Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. — Bruce Lee
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and… — E L Doctorow
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more… — Daniel J. Boorstin

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