Quotes About Shape

As we know from the oral tradition, every time the spirit moves it takes a different shape.

it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

Mine was the naïveté of the living; now it is the confusion and longing of the dead. Pray when I am finished with this tale, I will go on to something greater. Punishment even would have its shape, its purpose, some conviction of meaning. I cannot imagine eternal flames. But I can imagine eternal meaning.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trade entering his body. The art must enter the body, too.

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

As with anything in life, when you have certain experiences at pivotal times, they shape you.

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

It's the moments of our life that shape us.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

Carlos describes the sensation of having his cells vibrate and dissolve as he is transported by a light beam, leaving behind a kind of ghostly shape.

he could see the blackened, deformed shape in the pile of embers.

I'm officially at the age where I see that commercial for the Craftmatic Adjustable Bed and think, "Sweet! Are you kidding me? You mean I can sleep in the shape of a U?"

O Attic shape! Fair attitude!

Keith dreamed of dragons again, and awoke cold in his bed, curled into a ball that would have been his tail tucked tight across his nose and eyes if he had been in wolf's shape.

He was about the color, shape, and size of an ostrich-feather duster and suited Garrett much better than either of them suited the décor of her townhouse.

He drew a long, slow breath, tasting mold and wet upon it, and shaped the well-loved words.

This was as good a spot to try a little meditation on the shape of the universe as I was likely to find, so I settled in, loosened my suit up a bit, and made myself comfortable.

Call it the universe of the Prometheans' goal-if they wish to shape the stories, I wish not to be shaped by them.

The shadow towered, from the snake to a shape with tufted ears laid flat, a lynx.