Shape Quotes

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

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.

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

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.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

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.

Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.

My soul is in good shape.

I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.