Best Shapeless Quotes
54 Shapeless quotes by 45 unique authors
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In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the…
— James M. Barrie
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In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that…
— Alberto Manguel
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Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy…
— Mercedes Lackey
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Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing…
— Italo Calvino
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Mum said earlier what a lovely dress you’re wearing.” Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. “This?” she said. “But I’ve had this for years.”…
— Derek Landy
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much…
— Pascal Mercier
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We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each…
— Tana French
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He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing,…
— A. S. Byatt
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Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
— Margaret Atwood
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Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the…
— Jodi Picoult
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Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives…
— J R Ward
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Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle…
— Bruce Lee
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is…
— Khalil Gibran
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much…
— Edith Head
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A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt.
— Brad Goreski
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So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.
— Trinny Woodall
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The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched…
— Martha Gellhorn
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