Shapes Quotations | Page 7

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

My wife and I never agree on the dishtowels. It's a matter of terms. She asks me not to put the dishtowel in the sink. So I drape it over the sink, but not in the sink. If that's our biggest problem, I think we're in good shape.

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.

I just want the songs to have the staying power as my favorite songs. If you listen to any Hank Williams song, when you're in a good mood, it's going to put you in a better mood. If you happen to be bummed-out, you're going to feel maybe a little more bummed-out and better at the same time. At any time in my life, his music has had meaning and value to me. If a song can shape-shift in that way, that's a sign of success.

Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.

I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.

Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

I like to keep myself in shape. I run and do weights when I go to the gym.

I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

If you want to get in shape, go to the #‎ gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there...

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

Dreams shape the world

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

My soul is in good shape.

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

I am not me but the living matter fermenting and forming it's own shape in the fruitfulness of everyday

I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.

I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

My body shape was made to get into the perfect aerodynamic position.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

The end of the series has massive ramifications. This is one of those things that comes along that shapes things for times to come. ... There's very much a pre-Civil War and post-Civil War Marvel Universe coming at you.

The Classic shapes up to be even more competitive than last year. Hall, Mills and Central will feature some of the best players from Pulaski County.

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Beauty is in all shapes and sizes

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.