Shapes Quotes - Page 39

I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.

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

To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.

When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

What better motivation is there to get in better shape than imagining your thighs exposed, watusyin' and a shimmyin' all over the stage.

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

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

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

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

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

As with anything in life, when you have certain experiences at pivotal times, they shape you.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author -- then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new.

This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.