Best shapes & lines Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.”

Want I Can Able Lines Race Shapes Injury

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.”

Looks Certain Lines Like You Shapes Mouths Features Fatigue

Author:Anjelica Huston

“Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.”

World May Lines Offers Shapes Mark Patterns Creator Surface Painter Rhythm Proportion Revelations Texture Signatures

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.”

Long Character Lines Shapes Window Long Lines

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.”

Together Causes Lines Shapes Perception Series Viewers Sculpture Fitting Fitting Together

Author:Edward J. Fraughton

“Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.”

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them up as actually as you possibly can, but sooner or later the book has got momentum and it's moving along under that momentum. It's like a sculpture, if you're working with the grain of the wood, the wood will start defining what shape it's going to become.”

People Ifs Writing Doe Book Happens Moving Lines Shapes Woods Grain Sooner Or Later Sculpture Defining Momentum

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Different Whole Might Given Lines Mom Shapes Draws Daughter Trust Me Dots You Think You Know

Author:Laura Lee

“[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.”

Writing May Country Political Lines Fire Shapes Preserves Meat Labour Fierce Destined Trunks Political Writing

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.”

Firsts Doe Nature Lines Common Flower Shapes Models Infinite Inequality Variety Charm Eden Nature Beauty Picturesque Progeny

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”

Giving Happens Lines Marriage Roles Taken Our Lives Shapes Suits Prisoner Armor Hardened Suits Of Armor

Book:Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir

Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir

“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.”

Mind Humans Lines Technology Shapes Skills Tools Currents Aids Users Back When Tailors Adept

Book:Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

Source: Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”

Ifs May Whole Purpose Culture Three Asks Belief Lines Moral Shapes Elements Strings Solitary Configuration

Book:The Culture We Deserve

Source: The Culture We Deserve

“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.”

Thinking World Needs Mean Past Moving Values Order Born Lines Environment Shapes Independence Determined Meaningful Arrangements Autonomy Defining Moving Out

Author:Gerda Lerner

“I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.”

People Form Language Lines Common Objects Shapes Structure All Time Symbols Minimum Indication Intrigued

Book:Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.”

Ifs Way Needs Mean Made Lines Fiction Shapes Being True Documentaries Another Way Texture Allegory Vagabonds

Author:Agnes Varda

“For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.”

Bits Lines Novel Integrity Shapes Paragraph

Author:Paul Auster

“I'm inspired by lines, by shapes, when I see a dress on a person, when I see a beauty in a face, whether it's a man from an ancient culture or a beautiful young model. So what inspires me? Life inspires me.”

Men Persons Beautiful Faces Young Culture Lines Inspire Shapes Models Dresses Inspired Ancient

Author:Russell James

“The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.”

Given Lines Shapes Pulse Cadence

Author:George Oppen

“Don't dwell on your mistakes. Set achievable goals: a confident line, effective use of values, interesting shapes, exciting texture.”

Use Values Goal Lines Interesting Mistake Shapes Exciting Texture

Book:The New Creative Artist

Source: The New Creative Artist

“The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.”

Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World

“It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.”

Ifs Trying Art Two Reality House Lines Shapes Resources Harder Fewer Realism Nails Bent Unlimited Bricks Hammers

Author:Ursula Vernon

“If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!”

Ifs Form Lines Records Emotional Shapes Equal Details Granted Tone Significance Why Not Emphasis Actuality Without A Trace

Author:William Mortensen

“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.”

Humans Body Sound Voice Lines Air Shapes Mouths Boxes Mediums Poetry Is Chests Coming Out Human Body

Author:Robert Pinsky

“As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.”

Lost Felt Lines Shapes Actresses Toes Clue

Author:Ludivine Sagnier

“Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story isn't there in the beginning, right from the start, I generally can't beat it into shape no matter how much rewriting I do.”

Ifs Trying Two Matter Stories Found Lines Emotion Shapes Beats Dialogue Capture Rewriting

Author:Mary J. Miller

“Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.”

Bigs Lines Special Shapes Concerned Corners Complicated Scales Smooth Geometry Singularity Euclid

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.”

Ifs Looks Lines Shapes Remarkable Far Away Straight Lines

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.”

Lines Shapes Complicated Circles Smooth Geometry Straight Lines Roughness

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.”

Feels Looks May Facts Moving Lines Tree Like You Shapes Productions Branches Organize Straight Lines

Author:Vik Muniz

“I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine equation between literature and liberalism and human goodness, and pay some attention to the darker, ambiguous, and often muddled energies and motivations that shape a work of art. If we do this, we can appreciate a writer like Céline or Gottfried Benn without worrying whether they conform to existing notions of political incorrectness.”

“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”

“Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.”

World Persons Made Moments Moving Life Is Choices Belief Lines Ability Path Shapes Visible Coins Accounting Bidding

Book:No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.”

World Whole Body Light Form Loses Lines Dark My Own Space Walks Feet Shapes Chaos New Beginnings Pits Dropping Light Up Space Between Beacons

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“What do you think? Does everything look right? " " You really expect me to look at anything but you? " She laughed even as her pulse jittered. " Boy, I must be in bad shape when a shopworn line like that hits the mark. " " I mean it, " he said and watched her smile fade. " I adore looking at you. " Laying a hand on her knees with a long, slow, thorough kiss. " Beautiful Margo. mine. " " Well, you're certainly taking my mind off my ... kiss me again. " " Glad to.”

Thinking Mind Wells Looks Mean Long Doe Said Hands Beautiful Lines Boys Mines Shapes Kissing Mark Glad Knees Laughed Fades Adore Pulse Thorough Kiss Me Her Smile

Book:Nora Roberts' Dream Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Dream Trilogy

“When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”

Men Feels Eye Hate Imagination Lines Quality Saws Impossible Hair Grew Shapes Mouths Hatred Corners Pity

Book:The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.”

World Lines Ability Shapes Paper Pages Letters Series Arrangements Ink Conjuring

Author:Lynda Barry

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