Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a # God who is a # Creator not a # Duplicator . — Francis Chan
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached. — Jasper Johns
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. — Bruce Lee
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. — Elbert Hubbard
At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model. — Alberto Giacometti
The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling. — Ovid
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. — George Orwell
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. — Steven Bochco
Short Mould Quotes
Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs. — Florence Scovel Shinn
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. — William Shakespeare
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould — Michel de Montaigne
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. — Henry David Thoreau
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. — Thomas Hardy
Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life...! — Sujit Lalwani
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde
Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want — Amish Tripathi
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller
Mould Image Quotes
Mould The World Quotes
Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. — Eric Berne
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. — Alain de Botton
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
That makes ingrateful man! — William Shakespeare
I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable. — Alex Ferguson
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. — Lech Walesa
Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you. — Tim Hughes
I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, they say, doth dote,
And cannot make a man
Save on some worn-out plan
Repeating us by rote:
For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
Of the unexhausted West,
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new. — James Russell Lowell
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world. — Thomas Carlyle
Break The Mold Quotes
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity. — Rollo May
Break the mold! Have the biggest vision you can! If you can't dream it, it cannot occur! — Judy Baca
Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble. — Helena Bonham Carter
We need role models who are going to break the mold. — Carly Simon
Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you're afraid that you're going to covered in a magazine as a "fashion don't." That's why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same. — Tom Ford
Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on go, ...Only shooting stars break the mold. — Greg Camp
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now. — Lady Gaga
I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record. — Milo Aukerman
I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are. — Garrett Clayton
Mold Quotes
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — U.G. Krishnamurti
Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His. — Timothy Keller
I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in. — Ashley Graham
You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold. — Howard G. Hendricks
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. — Corrie Ten Boom
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. — Thomas Troward
Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special. — Austin Carlile
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. — Edward Bernays
We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences. — Rumi
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. — Joseph Pulitzer
A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor. — Diosdado Macapagal
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel. — John Dryden
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. — William Godwin
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life. — Saint Francis de Sales
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject. — Alexander Fleming
We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity. — Nicolae Ceausescu
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire
Would we not shatter it to bits-and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? — Omar Khayyam
You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually. — Cate Blanchett
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like. — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. — Willa Cather
We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould. — Jacque Fresco
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. — Kim Jong Il
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. — Charlotte Bronte
Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed. — Paul Feyerabend
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision. — Plato
If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare. — will.i.am
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. — Hunter S. Thompson
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways. — Lawren Harris
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. — Edward Gibbon
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well. — Andre Bazin
If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him. — John McEnroe
I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia. — Steve Waugh
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. — Georges Danton
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me. — Jimmy Cliff
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them — Jawaharlal Nehru
Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
...it's just another one of those things I don't understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity — E. A. Bucchianeri
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up. — Andre Malraux
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. — Samuel Butler
I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want. — Nate Parker
"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm." — Victor Hugo
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. — Ahad Ha'am
Being vintage like a fine wine
Should make you proud of being old
And being mature like a cheese
Certainly explains the mould!
Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade — John Walter Bratton
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