Shape Quotes

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. (Joan Miró)
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. View quote
W. Clement Stone
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. View quote
Winston Churchill
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. View quote
Joseph Addison
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. View quote
Heinrich Heine
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. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Ideas shape the course of history. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. View quote
Fidel Castro
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. (Robert Frost)
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. View quote
Geddy Lee
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. View quote
Keanu Reeves
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. View quote
Salman Rushdie
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. View quote
Mark Twain
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. View quote
Jean Rhys
Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm. View quote
Merton Miller
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape. View quote
Christian Dior
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. View quote
E. M. Forster
If You Have Less Than Three Friends in High School, You're in Good Shape. (Gerard Way)
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself. View quote
Trinny Woodall
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. View quote
Doris Lessing