#shape

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#fairy tales #family #father #had #how

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#alright #cause #come #convince #depressed

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. ↗

— Richard Hatch

#buying #colors #designs #dollars #feel

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#destinies #guides #human #human affairs #opinion

Ideas shape the course of history. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#course #history #ideas #shape

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#appreciate #know #life #make #pain

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#atmosphere #business #complete #family #film

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have. ↗

— John Hay Whitney

#community #day #every #every day #excitement

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#great #heart #really #shape #spinning

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject. ↗

— William Safire

#comes #dealing #intellectual #primary #shape