#shape

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#chord #desk #did #four #frets

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#am #basis #daily #daily basis #experience

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#elements #extension #nature #neither #nor

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#awhile #back #bit #body #concern

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#back #citizens #coming #contemplating #heard

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cat #diagram #embodied #fish #given

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#attempt #being #being used #depress #heck

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. ↗

— Maya Lin

#convey #down #editing #goal #i

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

— Ray Liotta

#blow #fat #had #i #later