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Quotes About Shape

Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
not every curve is a line.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Inference is a hard thing, maybe the hardest thing. From the shape of the clouds and the way they move we struggle to go backward, to solve for x, the system that made them.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
The future without days. Without days of it? in it? I try to—just for a second—feel that shape.
~ Jorie Graham
He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
in time to come be shaped by the human mind." Asked
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who's TARDIS.
~ Ernest Cline
And what indwelling looks like is this: relying on clues "subsidiarily" to shape a complex focal pattern.
~ Esther Lightcap Meek
An interest in souls divorced from an interest in Scripture leaves us without a text that shapes these souls. In the same way, an interest in Scripture divorced from an interest in souls leaves us without any material for the text to work on.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Our language is shaped by the context in which we are communicating: we select the words that fit our function.
~ Evan Davis
Vivid memories only exist to influence future events
~ Evan wittmer
The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
~ Ted Kulongoski
For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it's positive or negative, as long as it's three dimensional.
~ Justin Lin
I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.
~ Eleanor Mondale
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
~ Alain Robert
If, however, we try to draw these mental images, we quickly realize that we don't have nearly enough information about shape, proportion, contour, or texture to do the job with much precision or character.
~ Bert Dodson
Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it.
~ Bertholt Brecht
Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.
~ Billie Letts
Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.
~ Vanessa Kirby
I've always said that I'd continue to wrestle until it wasn't fun for me anymore. I'm still in great shape and until I can't compete at a top level, there's no reason for me to consider retirement yet.
~ Christopher Daniels
Obviously, just from being an athlete, from being a wrestler keeping in shape just in general is something that stayed with me even being out of the ring for a while, but then eventually been lucky enough to be here in Chicago.
~ Aiden English
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
~ Pico Iyer
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
~ Henry Petroski