Shapes Quotes - Page 42

I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over time, I end up with a dozen or so stories, and I start to see a shape to them, how they fit together, and then I write stories that complement or extend that shape.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all children. They are like snowflakes with their own patterns and their own shapes and their own sizes.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

I don't know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren't in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care.