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Shapes Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on…
- I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise…
- It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave…
- I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow…
- Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,…
- While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not…
- I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than…
More Shapes Quotes
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder… — Eric Bana
- Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we… — Joseph Addison
- My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer… — Victoria Beckham
- When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a… — Victoria Beckham
- Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. — Ezra Taft Benson
- It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos