Shapes Quotes - Page 35

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

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.

Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.

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

But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.

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

You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.