You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

- Dean Norris

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

- Jason Bateman

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

- Joan Didion

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

- Hedi Slimane

I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

- Geri Halliwell

How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

- George Packer

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

- Frank Harris

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

- Eric Rohmer

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

- Ethan Zuckerman

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

- Dorothy McGuire

I paint with shapes.

- Alexander Calder

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

- Derrick Jensen

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

- Dean Inge

I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

- Dakota Johnson

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

- Carre Otis

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

- Cornel West

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

- Bonnie Wright

With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.

- Bjork

The environment shapes people's actions.

- B. F. Skinner

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

- Aleksandar Hemon