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Quotes About Shape

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.
~ Frederick Lenz
A fluid choice, the choice of fantasy, is poured out on the ground and instantly hardens; it has taken its undeniable shape.
~ Alice Munro
for St. Andrew, who testified upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A little north of Boston, there was something called LOVECRAFT KEYHOLE; it was a crater in the rough shape of a padlock.
~ Joe Hill
My body isn't designed for walking. It's entirely the wrong shape. The legs are far too short and the whole trunk is shaped exactly to fit into seats and be carried comfortably to its destination, preferably by something fast and exciting, such as a sports car or a helicopter.
~ Joe Simpson
Take care what technologies you use, because your consciousness will, over time, come to be shaped like those technologies.
~ Johann Hari
I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.
~ Julianne Moore
'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.
~ Michael Rooker
How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
~ Ed Smith
I'm in shape. Round is a shape... isn't it?
~ Anonymous
There must be some definite cause why, whenever snow begins to fall, its initial formation invariably displays the shape of a six-cornered starlet. For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall just as well with five corners or with seven? . . . Who carved the nucleus, before it fell, into six horns of ice? —From "On the Six-Cornered Snowflake," by Johannes Kepler, 1610
~ Anthony Doerr
Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.
~ Neil Bush
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
~ Joseph Howe
The federal government should not be in the business of initiating and administering short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior.
~ John Quelch
Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
~ Victor Vasarely
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.
~ Francis Spufford
The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.
~ Frank Herbert
Once . . . long ago, he'd thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.
~ Frank Herbert
How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How
~ Frank Herbert
The future is a thing to be shaped, Scytale said. Hold that thought, Princess.
~ Frank Herbert
The music of a civilization has far-reaching consequences on consciousness and, thus, influences the basic nature of a society. Music and its rhythms divert and compel the awareness, describing the limits within which a consciousness, thus fascinated, may operate. Control the music, then, and you own a powerful tool with which to shape the society. ?The Dosadi Analysis, BuSab Documents
~ Frank Herbert
Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate.
~ Frank Herbert
But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.
~ Frank Herbert