Shapes Quotes - Page 13

• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

  James Russell Lowell

  Discipline, Example, Literature

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• If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

  John Lydon

  Might, Way, Makers

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• I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run up and down the floor for hours. I use a magnifying glass to look at the beautiful shape of the thing.

  John Lydon

  Beautiful, Running, Believe

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

  John Lydon

  Nice, Insults You, Say Anything

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• I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

  John Lydon

  Mind, Done, Way

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• When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

  Norm MacDonald

  Kids, Golf, Men

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• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Select, Simplify

  "Bring Up the Bodies : A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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• We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Nature, Environmental

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Garden, Artist, Color

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• I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

  James McAvoy

  Football, Play, Healthy

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• We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Tools

  "New technology is fuelling the growth of gaming with social purpose" by David Hawksworth, Christian Johnsen, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2014.

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• I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.

  Marisa Miller

  Fun, Bored, Trying

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• When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.

  Nicki Minaj

  Crazy, Makeup, Thinking

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Color, Trying

  "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.

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• The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  States, Institutions, Chiefs

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• Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

  Alan Moore

  Running, Rats, Way

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• A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Musician, Sound

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• I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Home, Feelings

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• I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Exercise, Everyday

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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Dramatic Life, Nerd

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• You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.

  Robert De Niro

  Character, Editing, Giving

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• I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.

  Donald O'Connor

  Long, Genes, Smoke

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• Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Should Have, Stories

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• I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

  Susan Orlean

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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