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Quotes About Shape

I see traits of my body in my mother and grandmother, and it makes me proud. This shape isn't going anywhere.
~ Nikki Bella
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
~ Roy Lichtenstein
Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
~ Adoniram Judson
It is often said that the job of language is to report or reflect or mirror reality, but the power of language is greater and more dangerous than that; it shapes reality, not of course in a literal sense - the world is one thing, words another - but in the sense that the order imposed on a piece of the world by a sentence is only one among innumerable possible orders.
~ Stanley Fish
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
~ Henry Timrod
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
~ William Saroyan
The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
~ Gary Lineker
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
~ Jean Anouilh
And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass of every size and shape, some round, some square, some damaged, some intact, some as large as church windows, others as small as snuffbox miniatures.
~ Michael Ende
I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy.
~ The Weeknd
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
~ Olga Korbut
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
You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhere, just be shape and size savvy!
~ Holly Madison
The whole world of publishing is moving to electronic, but when you put a poem on a screen and you increase the type size, the shape of a poem changes.
~ Billy Collins
I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.
~ John Lloyd
I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.
~ Guy Pearce
Hutton noticed that if he used a pencil to connect points of equal height, it all became much more orderly. Indeed, one could instantly get a sense of the overall shape and slope of the mountain. He had invented contour lines.
~ Bill Bryson
To function, a protein must not only have the necessary chemical components, properly assembled, but then must also be folded into an extremely specific shape. "Folding" is the term that's used
~ Bill Bryson
Curiously, among the few survivors from this culinary onslaught is one that is most difficult to understand: the fish knife. Though it remains the standard instrument for dealing with fish of all kinds, no one has ever identified a single advantage conferred by its odd scalloped shape or worked out the original thinking behind it. There isn't a single kind of fish that it cuts better or bones more delicately than a conventional knife does.
~ Bill Bryson
Curiously, among the few survivors from this culinary onslaught is one that is most difficult to understand: the fish knife. Though it remains the standard instrument for dealing with fish of all kinds, no one has ever identified a single advantage conferred by its odd scalloped shape or worked out the original thinking behind it. There isn't a single kind of fish that it cuts better or bones more delicately than a conventional knife does.
~ Bill Bryson
The world will shape you if you let it. To live the life you desire, you must make conscious choices. —John Donahoe, CEO, eBay
~ Bill George
not really a quote but here is is The setting is the start.The story hangs from that hook,and the characters move slowly around one another. Each piece has its own shape and size. The characters think they see the wires that connect them. But that isn't possible. Or is it? Who makes the rules?
~ Blue Balliett
Már nem rágta az utóbbi napok nyugtalansága, úgy érezte, narancs alakú a szíve.
~ Boris Vian
When NATO stood up its new Joint Intelligence and Security Division at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or SHAPE, she
~ Brad Thor