Shapes Quotes (page 3)

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• history
• words
• equality

It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we notice that any emphasis on shape or structure or pattern or form always throws a verbal narrative in the direction we call mythical rather than historical.(p.21) Northrop Frye

• society
• societies
• shaped

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. Charles de Secondat

• music
• color
• words

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

• him
• manly
• man

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. Arthur Miller

• ours
• shaped
• tools

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan

• behold
• tool
• shaped

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan

• him
• evening
• 20th century

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century. Lawrence Summers

• writing
• start
• write

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. Carol Ann Duffy

• environment
• decision
• manly

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. Rene Dubos

• alone
• personality
• living alone

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. Mary Douglas

• profound
• leaving
• look

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. Kate DiCamillo

• change
• reflection
• tree

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. John Hull

• dream
• real
• fish

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Jim Woodring

• change
• different
• grouping

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces. Edgard Varese

• garden
• growth
• knowledge

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. Friedrich August von Hayek