Quotes About Shape

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Her hand was small and had shape, not the usual bony garden tool you see on women nowadays.

His body was massive, easily thirty feet tall, and shaped like a man's, though the legs had a decidedly animal shape, like a goat's or horse's, with a stifle and hock, rather than with hip and knee.

P]erhaps at midnight, when all boundaries are lost, the country reverts to its ancient shape, as the Romans saw it, lying cloudy, when they landed, and the hills had no names and rivers wound they knew not where. —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Genes manipulate the world and shape it to assist their replication.

What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me.

If we eliminate the word writer, if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules dissappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form that is inherent in the thing we are observing, listening to, and trying to put on the page. It has rules of its own that it will reveal to us if we listen with attention. Shape does not need to be imposed. Shape is a part of what we are listening to. When we just let ourselves write, we get it right.

One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].

God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.