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“I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.”

Thinking Two Book Mother Company Shapes Ships Auditors

Book:Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

Source: Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

“In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.”

Two Three Voice Air New York Shapes Bird England Mere Visible Sugar Rumor New England Sap Maple Bluebird

Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“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

“K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.”

Two Shapes Destruction Temples Columns Altered Lofty Consonants

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.”

Ifs Way Children Two Different Economic Shapes Outcomes Different Place Later In Life

Author:Gwen Ifill

“If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.”

Ifs Years Two Age Political Next Religious Economic Shapes Ten Clothes Pressure Notion Architecture Hats Two Years Significance Accurate Interiors Next Year Decoration

Author:James Laver

“I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Feels Firsts Looks Two Real Beautiful Certain Difficult Clear Four Mystery Shapes Moon Objectives Awful Tonight Unreasonable Geometric Geometric Shapes

Author:William Baziotes

“Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.”

Two Play Problem Guy Games Sports Numbers Effort Shapes Fatigue Snaps

Author:Steve Spurrier

“The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.”

Two Hard Might Fighting Three Four Week Months Shapes Japan Schedules Two Weeks Perks

Author:Owen Hart

“There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.”

Men Two Religion Universe Energy Grows Moral Materials Shapes Bottom Observation Commandments Nature Of Man

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!”

Two Body Secret Shapes Weight Shoulders Heels High Heels Pads

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.”

Knows Stills Two War Country President Opinion Broken Shapes My Friends Crisis Financial Mess Gaps President Obama Mortgage Financial Crisis

Author:Don Cheadle

“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.”

Two Left Water Secret Behinds Shapes Elements Stones Crosses Primaries Desert Abundance Exposed Canvas Left Behind Rarity Vegetation Ferocity

Author:Craig Childs

“Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.”

Two Strong Color Painting Shapes Plant Drawing Sculpture

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.”

May Two Body Moving Language Arms Shapes Originals Proportion Pulling Dwarfs Periphery Tentacles Amoeba

Author:Charlton Laird

“They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical issue of the last century is thus history at its best. Thompson's judicious and delicious depiction of Nitze and Kennan will fascinate anyone who cares about the Cold War or the ways that human beings shape the future.”

Way Humans Two War Ends Hands Care Lasts Human Beings Issues Century Cold Shapes Argument Critical Cold War Delicious Who Cares Old Friends Skillful Depiction

Author:Jonathan Alter

“The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.”

Ifs Mind Kind Two Turns Found Shapes Computer Dancing Rounds Sensual Snakes Wraps Upside Down

Author:Marge Piercy

“Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.”

Men Needs Giving Two Passion Five Taste Shapes Ten Wine Hungry Bread Urgent Nourishment Containers

Author:Rumi

“I think you'd have to be a pretty brave man to say "never go out of style," but men's suiting has been relatively stable for 100 years now. The single-breasted, two-button gray flannel suit, you could've worn it in exactly the same cut, shape and fabric in 1910 as you wear it in 2010.”

Thinking Men Years Has Beens Two Cutting Style Shapes Brave Suits Gray Stable Worn Buttons Fabric Brave Man Suits You Flannels Worn It

Author:Patrick Grant

“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”

Thinking Kind Littles Two Ideas Real Problem Interest Emotion Existence Fiction Figures Painting Grew Shapes Sight All Kinds Preserves Colour Initials Vibrations

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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

“That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.”

Two Light Eye Spirit Names Heaven Shapes Eternal Essence Primal

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most solids occur in typically one or maybe two or three different forms, and ice has approximately 15 different crystal forms, as well as two forms that are called amorphous, which means without any shape at all.”

Thinking Wells Mean Two Different Form Three Opinion Shapes Ice Remarkable Crystals

Author:Ira Flatow

“I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I feel like this time's gonna be different. I figure one of two things is gonna happen: either I'll get into shape, or I'll just resign myself to paying an $85 a month fat tax.”

World Feels Two Different Happens History Figures Months Shapes Taxes Fats Two Things Gym Best History

Author:Christian Finnegan

“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.”

“I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.”

Thinking Want Two Play Character Shapes Size Physicality

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.”

“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

“If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.”

Ifs Two Philosophy Helping Courses Sex Shapes Logic Western Assumption Binary Western Philosophy

Author:Alison Assiter

“I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.”

Way Two Half Study Shapes Aspect One Way Artificial Fractals

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry. One is dreams, and the other is childhood. I think childhood is an inexhaustible source of your becoming who you will be and certain deep feelings are set inside of you.”

Thinking Way Said Two Feelings Dream Certain Childhood Source Becoming Shapes Very Deep Deep Feeling

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.”

Way Humans Two Different Form Human Beings Shapes Grateful Prepared Comedian Two Things Demoralized

Author:John Oliver

“My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.”

Men Children Made Two Important Ends Comedy Shapes My Children Better Man

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape of them was pretty much determined by the original work. With my own plays, the only changes, aside from taking a speech out here, putting one in there (if I thought I dwelled on a point a little too long or didn't make it explicit enough), are very minor; but even though they're very minor - having to do with the inability of actors or the unwillingness of the director to go along with me - I've always regretted them.”

Ifs Littles Long Two Done Enough Play Actors My Own Shapes Directors Speech Originals Determined Minors Inability Adaptation Explicit Revision

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".”

Years Mind Firsts Two Real Courses Party Struggle Revolution Shapes Tradition Fundamentals Socialism Versions Features Characteristics Conception Proclamation

Author:Leon Trotsky

“The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.”

People Two Shapes Mainstream Stamps Underground Music

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.”

Men Two Order Taken Dog Shapes Creatures Guitar Size

Author:Andres Segovia

“When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.”

Thinking Two Together Answers Numbers Shapes Thirds Math Evolve Imagery Mental Imagery

Author:Daniel Tammet

“Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.”

Way Doe Made Two Stories Problem Seems Form Reading Realizing Imagination Natural Silence Four Imagine Shapes Findings Tests Bases Absolutes Finals Defined Orange

Author:Truman Capote

“I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.”

Two Voice Shapes Two Days

Book:John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”

“I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.”

Two Soul Ends Love Is Taken Journey Shapes I've Learned Two Things Beginnings And Ends Love Journey Abarat

Author:Clive Barker

“Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.”

Thinking Long Two Ends Would Be Eye Half Team Shapes Moon Creatures Limits Shadow Died Size Edges Boundaries Gentle Borders Horizon Troll Blurry Long Shadows Half Moon Patrolling

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.”

World Way Two Dream Might Mother Universe Loss Heard Loneliness Design Shapes Sooner Or Later Misunderstanding Static Dream World Love Loss

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni