#shapes

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#came #could #different #different shapes #first

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

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: "Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#pnr #shapeshifter #suspense #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

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

When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#being #blonde #bored #change #colors

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 paint with shapes. ↗

— Alexander Calder

#i #paint #shapes

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. ↗

— Pete Cashmore

#execution #off #really #shapes #takes

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

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will. ↗

— Frank Harris

#ends #our #rough #shapes #them