Shape Quotes

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing.

Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.

I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.

Most of us believe outside situations shape our attitudes when, in fact, it is our view of the situations that shape our attitudes.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.