Exact Shape

Famous quotes containing the words exact and/or shape:

“The really great novel ... tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)

“To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise, and will not be rashly explained. Her secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives: he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same sorcery has spoiled his skill; no syllable can he shape on his lips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)