#shape

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#depends #order #shape #upon #which

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#great #life #little #meaning #patiently

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#best #between #feel #get #gigs

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#back #drapes #front #hangs #hip

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in. ↗

— Robert Collier

#flux #make #mold #pour #shape

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves. ↗

— Henry Timrod

#deep #demons #dreams #each #elves

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chords #fit #folds #healthy #how

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#end #in the end #into #novel #pour

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#am #great #guess #i #i am