#shape

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#agenda #changes #crisis #franklin #franklin roosevelt

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes. ↗

— Zac Posen

#biggest thing #body #clothing #different #displayed

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#capacity #full #long #mind #shape

The British Film industry in 1984 was not in a great shape. ↗

— Neal Purvis

#film #film industry #great #industry #shape

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#actor #against #character #completely #go

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#because #dangerous #i #into #jump

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#best #go #god #i #i can