Quotes with shape

Quotes 81 till 100 of 100.

  • Ann Druyan This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Billy Collins To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Napoleon True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Barnett Newman We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Asa Gray 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.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Winston Churchill We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • James Baldwin We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carolyn Chute When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Louise Erdrich When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bob Dylan While one who sings with his tongue on fire
    Gargles in the rat race choir
    Bent out of shape from society's pliers
    Cares not to come up any higher
    But rather get you down in the hole
    That he's in
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Andrew Johnson Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Lewis Carroll With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • John Ruskin You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Brenda Song Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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