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Shapes Quotes - Page 15

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

"Paula Radcliffe in bullish mood ahead of Berlin marathon" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

"The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order" by Michel Chossudovsky, Preface to the Second Edition, (p. xxii), 2003.

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

Jean Aitchison (1997). “The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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

James Howell (1713). “Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into four books, Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.206

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.164, Рипол Классик

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

Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

"I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.165