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Quotes About Shape

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
~ Oscar Wilde
But then, that's the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling lik
~ T.C. Boyle
Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.
~ Natasha Tsakos
The historical account we have presented so far indicates that any approach based on historical determinism—based on geography, culture, or even other historical factors—is inadequate. Small differences and contingency are not just part of our theory; they are part of the shape of history.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
bigger of the two. He had a nose wart the size and shape of a small mushroom.
~ Dave Barry
Memory, perhaps, should have no physical shape.
~ Dave Eggers
It's no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure. Now get out there and buy yourself something nice. Your future deserves it.
~ Dave Rubin
silhouette transformed into a man with wide
~ David Baldacci
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
~ David Bowie
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.
~ David Foster Wallace
I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.
~ William Shakespeare
Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.
~ William Shakespeare
Mr Whitworth's nose was a different shape
~ Winston Graham
See how efficient it still is, how it keeps itself in shape-- our century's hatred. How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles. How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
~ Yann Martel
Memories. Weighty emptinesses. I live in a memory the size and shape of a house.
~ Unknown
you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.
~ Clive Bell
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
~ Herb Ritts
life's work over, rural ennui stretching ahead: a procession of days, Sunday to Sunday, all without shape.
~ Hilary Mantel
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
~ Holly Black
Faeries…?" I ask. "Yes, yes." He sounds impatient. "The Folk of the Air. Insubstantial, unable to hold one shape. Like the seeds of flowers launched into the sky.
~ Holly Black
Have you come to gloat?' I ask, frustrated. 'To stop me?' I am not sure how powerful a kelpie is out of the water and in the shape of a man. 'To surprise you,' he says. 'Aren't surprises wonderful?
~ Holly Black
helixes of his ears
~ Lincoln Child
all anybody is doing when engaging in life writing is giving a narrative shape to a story of a life.
~ Linda Anderson