#shapes

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#birds #came #dawn #did #does

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. ↗

— Dean Inge

#horse #human #human beings #saw #shapes

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like. ↗

— Sean Booth

#creates #curves #dictate #difference #involving

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#environment #himself #his #man #shape

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. ↗

— John Sterling

#answers #colors #feeling #man #motion

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#course #crowd #far #love #more

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. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#christ #divine #forms #great #great art

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#factory #important #ivory #rare #shapes

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#colours #idea #itself #match #never

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#become #determine #helps #life #person