#shapes

A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse-novels #sookie-stackhouse

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#memory #objects #only #pictures #please

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#come #cool #shapes #sizes #successful

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#brave man #dread #face #fear #man

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

#claims #forever #hardest #his #image

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#childhood #continue #different #different shapes #giant

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#began #better #desert #draw #drawing

I paint with shapes. ↗

— Alexander Calder

#i #paint #shapes

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#being #being ignored #good #great #great teachers

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. ↗

— Edward Witten

#basic #basic things #beauty #different #different shapes