Shapes Quotes - Page 19

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

I'm probably in better shape now than I was when I was in my 20s.

I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

Technology shapes society and society shapes technology.

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.

My body's in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.

I'm staying in shape, working out.

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

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

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.

I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions and vague notions and scraps of knowledge. At some stage a form or, rather, a shape mysteriously emerges.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.