Shapes Quotes - Page 28

• We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Errors, Keys

  "Mastery". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Would Be, Continents

  "35 Maya Angelou Quotes That Changed My Life" by J.N. Salters, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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• It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.

  Carole Maso

  Beautiful, Moving, Space

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• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Past, Joy

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• I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sorry, Pain, Sunset

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• Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

  Jim Butcher

  Imagination, Magic, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• ...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

  Tove Jansson

  Interesting, Feelings, Asking

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• Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Bridges, Longing, Crosses

  "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.

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• Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.

  MacDonald Harris

  Dark, Thinking, Mirrors

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• the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

  Sara Zarr

  Love Is, Unfinished Business, Color

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.

  Derek Landy

  Cowboy, Pie, Style

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• Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.

  Abbi Glines

  Memories, Night, Lasts

  Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

  Dan Abnett

  Moving, Fighting, People

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• The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Men, Desire, Desire For Knowledge

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.118, Penguin

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• And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

  Lois Lowry

  Memories, Rooms, Our Future

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• I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

  Ian Mcewan

  World, Form, Given

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• LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them. ME: I can't say i agree with that notion. LUCAS: More of both, then.

  Tammara Webber

  Couple, Memories, Needs

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• you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

  David Levithan

  Names, Ask Me, My Time Will Come

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Limits, Sides, Hundred

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Past, Way, Firsts

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• But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

  John Green

  Sky, Stories, Want

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Flower, Apology, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.148, Penguin

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• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Mean, Smell

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love Is, Sea, Different

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.230, University of Illinois Press

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• Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Letters, Daggers, Down And

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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