The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you’re in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody’s personality.
You know, I’m from the Midwest, man – that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
My personal style is very eclectic. I like graphic shapes and multiple layers.
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world – to put on blinders and avoid seeing it – would for me seem like a form of madness. I’m also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
Bubbles are incredibly basic. We think of them in that way just because they’re a kid’s toy. But I think it’s more basic than childhood, something primal – the liquid, the flow, the shapes. We were liquid at one point in our development.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
I love sunglasses, I have all shapes and colors.
There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can’t deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.
I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.
Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don’t know where the end is. I don’t start at the beginning. It’s like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.
I don’t think people have ever really been in touch with science. They’re drawn to it, but they don’t know why they’re drawn to it. For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes.
I was writing ‘He Who Shapes’ when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Where you’re from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.
My family thought – and thinks – very seriously about words. About language and what it means and how it shapes us and how it should shape us and change us.
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
I study the ways new media shapes people’s perceptions of the world.
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ’s religion illuminates with His divine light.
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
‘Sexy’ is a state of mind, and it can come in all shapes and sizes. It is different for every person.
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America’s youth about military service.
Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.
Who you seen on screen shapes who you are.
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.
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.
My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.
To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.
I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.
Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric – it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
Every event, whether they’re positive or negative, shapes us. And sometimes, events happen that we couldn’t even fathom.
Buying knives can be an intimidating experience. They come in all different shapes and sizes, all of which do certain jobs – you wouldn’t want to use a slicer to core a tomato.
I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It’s eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
The word ‘midget’ is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum’s era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it.
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
Orbs are little bundles of positive energy and they think they can move between 500 and 1,000 miles per hour. They look like little round planets, but they come in all shapes and sizes. Conventional photography can’t pick them up, but digital cameras can.
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.
I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
The things that people won’t totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms… The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
Fashion doesn’t look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
It’s hard to escape bullies that come in many shapes and forms. The processed food industry, corrupt religious organizations, and celebrity worship culture are just a few that we deal with in modern times.
I really like the resurgence of the ’90s vibe, and you can’t go wrong with a Canadian Tuxedo. I never think it’s bad to layer denim, whether it’s colors or shapes.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
