Shape Quotes

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

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

And when we go from braking to accelerating to cornering, the G-forces we pull are really demanding on our bodies. We definitely have to be in top shape.

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

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.

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

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.

I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately I've been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.

I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.

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