You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.
He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O'Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Overweight, and his twin, O'Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Slim When They're Not.
Competing helps me to polish my shape.
On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.
The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [. . . ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
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.
My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.
I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.
You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhere, just be shape and size savvy!
If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.
I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions