"When he made it O.K. to talk about the shape of a good poop, I knew he could talk about anything," Winfrey says, referring to the time he told her audience that the bequest of a properly humming gastrointestinal system should be S-shaped and hit the water like an Olympic diver, without much splash.
Now, at least we can talk about the shape of the future Palestinian state that we will build.
People talk about the shape of the boot, but it's like, put that boot on, and because of the way that it's crafted, every single part of your foot, ankle, gets to experience that luxury".
For a few moments we talk about the shape of her life: the way it has been bookended by death; it was only after Henry's death, she says, that she was able fully to process that of her mother.
When people talk about the shape of glasses they're referring to the shape of the lenses and the frame that goes around them.
With electricity scarce, people sit together in the evenings, playing word games and talking about the shape of their days.
In interviews, Dourif himself talks about the shape of his career as simply a product of a working actor needing work, particularly as a father – in the same year Cuckoo's Nest came out, his first daughter was born.
I see it as a bit like spaghetti; you don't sit there talking about the shape of the pasta, what constitutes great spaghetti and what the positioning should be.
We had very long meetings around a boardroom table talking about the shape of Hercules face, the chin, cheekbones and the size of the moustache to the millimetre.
The highlight of the lecture was a question from one of the local students: "Can you tell me how to go about designing a supersonic car, as I want to break your record in 20 years' time?" The answer, of course, is to take the advice from the world's leading expert in the field, Bloodhound's designer Ron Ayers, in this Cisco BHTV video talking about the shape of the car.
