Making Shapes Quotes

#1. Try not to base your decision on this room, it isn't representative of the whole world. Somewhere the sun is hot on a rubbery leaf, clouds are making shapes and reshaping and reshaping, a spiderweb is broken but still works.

Miranda July

#2. I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.

William Shatner

#4. 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.

Bernard Hopkins

#5. Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Jake Barton

#6. University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Allan Bloom

#7. The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.

Julie Delpy

#8. They say, he whispers, his lips making the word-shapes on her shoulder, there is a river that heals all wounds. It is pure white, like snow or the blossoms of prarie-cotton. You are my white river. If I die, I will come back to wash my heart in you.

Margaret Lawrence

#9. Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect

Pink

#10. G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

A. J. Jacobs

#11. Valentines day are coming up and a German company has made chokolate in shapes of couples making love. I don't like them ... I don't want my chokolate to have more fun than me.

Jay Leno

#12. The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Marcel Duchamp

#13. You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

A.S. Byatt

#14. Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

John Thune

#15. To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting him hear an example of the composer's music.

John R. Pierce

#16. When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

Rachel Holmes

#17. When making your ass, always draw the shape of Africa, or as Latrice would say, the homeland.

Sharon Needles

#18. The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

Maria Montessori

#19. The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.

Paul Watson

#20. I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

Seann William Scott

#21. Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#22. Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

Jonathan Lethem

#23. What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.

Rebecca McNutt

#24. Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

Carl Jung

#25. Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.

Rachel Carson

#26. Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

Robert Browning

#27. When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

Don DeLillo

#28. There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Art Spiegelman