Shapes Quotations | Page 3

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'

That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.

I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

When we come into the season every position accept pitchers and catchers is open. We're going to have to see how the batting order shapes up.

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs.

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.

The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

I don't know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren't in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.

I always find sports-related ways to stay in shape...

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!'

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

You shape your own destiny.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all children. They are like snowflakes with their own patterns and their own shapes and their own sizes.

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Luckily I stayed in shape due to wrestling.

I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever.

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life. Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

God shapes the world by prayer.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.

When a Dalmatian sees a cow he must be like, 'What the hell happened to him? I am high right now. That dalmatian is fat and smeary.' When the cow sees the Dalmatian he must be like, 'He looks amazing. I am so out of shape, this is ridiculous. My tits are on the ground here.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

Form is the shape of content...

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.