Top 100 Malleable Quotes
#1. Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
Anya Seton
#2. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based on what the other person gives me. I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.
Rose McIver
#3. In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.
Gregg Braden
#4. As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.
Edwin Meese
#5. The form is so malleable and can do so many things.
Jess Walter
#6. Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.
Dan Millman
#8. The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.
Ayn Rand
#9. Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.
Tina Fey
#10. The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be.
Marina Warner
#11. Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#12. There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove or find what works for their room.
Jim Rash
#13. The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past.
Margaret Mark
#14. If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.
Don DeLillo
#15. The impossible is negotiable.
What is possible is malleable.
David Mitchell
#16. We are fed lies because believing them makes us weak, vulnerable, malleable. We depend on others for our food, health, sustenance. This cripples us. Creates cowards of our people. Slaves of our children. It's time for us to fight back.
Tahereh Mafi
#17. I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.
Brad Furman
#18. For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
Ismail Kadare
#19. For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye.
Barack Obama
#20. I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.
Ken Burns
#21. If the law is malleable, Mr. Senlin, if it bends and conforms to man, then man will become resolute in his flaws. The law exists to give shape to man's ideals. When you think about it, doesn't mercy serve the wicked at the expense of the law?
Josiah Bancroft
#22. With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.
Marc Blucas
#23. The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
Storm Jameson
#24. Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
Drake
#25. Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.
Eric Hoffer
#26. You're a writer, though. Your words are malleable, replaceable, and by definition untrustworthy. they mean nothing to you and that's what I'm afraid I am to you, to Walter, to any man I have ever been with. A worthless word
Morgan Parker
#27. You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
Kristen Stewart
#28. There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
#29. The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable
S.E. Sever
#30. The world exists only as a medium in which we execute our desires. Physically, the world itself, the actual world - the real world, if you like - is formed of malleable clay; its metaphysical structures is just as malleable.
Angela Carter
#31. Nature is malleable and nature learns.
David Wolfe
#32. Fashion and public relations share a charter to turn life to their own advantage, to make malleable and commercially useful the naked human perception. Both interests consider life too small, dull, and colorless to get itself sufficiently noticed without the lobbying efforts of professionals.
Kennedy Fraser
#33. The past is perpetually in play, always malleable, ever salvageable. Did any of this story happen as I said it did? The telling of a tale puts a prism to it from which incalculable new angles rainbow forth. You made this as real as I; remember it however you'd like.
Daniel Kraus
#34. Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
Jay Samit
#35. Everybody knows that, for such an unforgiving thing, time is uniquely malleable.
Stephen King
#36. The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics
Rachel Swaby
#37. The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Emmanuelle Beart
#39. And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.
David James Duncan
#40. One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
Georges Braque
#41. It reveals opinions and attitudes that are malleable, showing the plasticity of what in any given present moment one typically presents as a rock of certainty.
Mohsin Hamid
#42. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.
George Orwell
#43. We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.
Elizabeth Loftus
#44. I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.
Rose McIver
#45. Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter something much more malleable than your flesh, like your priorities, or your friends.
Nick Offerman
#46. A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman.
Chloe Thurlow
#47. In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time are malleable, and everything is seen through a haze of probabilities, rather than with certainty.
Amir Aczel
#48. Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
Brian Greene
#49. You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.
Mary Mattingly
#50. The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
Pat Metheny
#51. These were the ridiculous tales of being twenty-two and twenty-five, of being in that happy, malleable phase of postcollege life before everything set in the gray cement of adulthood.
Maya Lang
#52. The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert.
Gillian Flynn
#53. I was also beginning to learn about social psychology and the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which made me think about how malleable our supposedly strict moral codes become in the right conditions. Something that DIVERGENT grapples with.
Veronica Roth
#54. Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable ...
Nicholas Sparks
#56. Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.
Daniel Goleman
#57. It is the children who will be most malleable in your hands. Train them up in the way you would have them to go, and the next generation of Mizgalians will be the first of many to reach the state of perfection that I seek.
Nicole Sager
#58. In The Craft the clockwork God of Newtonian determinism has been replaced by the quantum-aware Great Architect who is ready and willing to allow us to contribute to His malleable Plan for the cosmos.
Robert Lomas
#59. Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.
Richard Dreyfuss
#60. Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
Benito Mussolini
#61. God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.
Frank E. Peretti
#62. If we are looking for a soft and malleable God who will stay safely within the boundary limits of conventional religious normalcy in His participation and impact upon our lives, then we are looking for a God who is not the God of the Bible.
Barton Jahn
#64. American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them.
Landon Y. Jones
#65. Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but a dream.
Jason Mraz
#66. Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.
Stephen Kinzer
#67. Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.
Mike Harding
#68. Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.
Mary Oliver
#69. I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career ...
Salma Hayek
#70. His mind seemed to expand as time became malleable, and with a sudden pop he could almost feel the world reset with a crystalline clarity of lost chances.
Kim Harrison
#71. The pace of change became so quick that the social order acquired a dynamic and malleable nature.
Anonymous
#72. The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.
Robert Jordan
#73. The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.
James Lovegrove
#74. I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.
Claire Danes
#75. In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.
Dean Koontz
#76. The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Bono
#77. I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity
Brian Kiteley
#78. Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
Dean Ornish
#79. To a certain extent, time was malleable, what he did did matter. Grace was proof of that. Naaliyah was alive.
Anthony Doerr
#80. There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.
Pharrell Williams
#81. I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.
Jay Baruchel
#82. For magicians -- whether modern entertainers or indigenous, tribal sorcerers -- have in common the fact that they work with the malleable texture of perception.
David Abram
#83. You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.
Adrian Pasdar
#84. I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.
Alex Kingston
#85. I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.
Kevin Smith
#86. History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
Ken Burns
#88. Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives
Jennifer E. Smith
#89. Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.
Walter Isaacson
#90. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules.
Iain M. Banks
#91. A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Jim Bishop
#92. She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.
Angela Carter
#93. I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.
Karen Abbott
#95. ... that your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions.
David Brooks
#96. Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Margaret Mead
#97. An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
Nicole Kidman
#98. The unknown is so inflammatory to the imagination because it is an imaginatively malleable space: a projection-screen onto which a culture or an individual can throw their fears and their aspirations. Like Echo's cave, the unknown will answer back with whatever you shout at it.
Robert Macfarlane
#99. We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.
John Wooden
#100. All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact - yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.
Frank Herbert
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