"I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape."
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"But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky."
"Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?"
"Usually if I want to just listen to something or sing along to something I'll put on some Gavin DeGraw or some Billy Joel. Occasionally, if I am feeling vocally in really great shape I will sing Jean Valjean's Soliloquy from LES MIZ or something."
"I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days."
"I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it."
"A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them."
"Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence."
"Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape"
"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."
"The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits."
"I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be."
"I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there."
"I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk."
"For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny."
"Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does."
"Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows."