#shape

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like. ↗

— Sean Booth

#creates #curves #dictate #difference #involving

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#depression #early #formed #great #great depression

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #biography #democracy #examine #famous

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day. ↗

— Robert Caro

#day #every #every day #example #how

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. ↗

— John le Carre

#ever #guess #i #i think #kill

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. ↗

— Li Ka Shing

#centuries #continuity #future #greatest #greatest strength

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#endurance #good #having #i #learned

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#environment #himself #his #man #shape

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

#before #i #i see #just #poem