Figures Quotes · Page 10

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

— Ricky Williams

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

— Timothy Leary

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

— John Green

Each of us will figure out our own way.

— George W. Bush

I like to keep my girlish figure

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

— Jacqueline de Ribes

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

— Rhea Perlman

I got eight figures like Im skatin in the winter.

— Childish Gambino

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

— Nick Bostrom

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it…

— Evgeni Plushenko

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it…

— Jamie Zawinski

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

— Noah Baumbach

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

— Wesley Snipes

In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow…

— Akiane Kramarik

The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

— John Boyne

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

— Henry Adams

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

— Caroline Knapp

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I…

— Gaby Hoffmann

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was…

— Sydney Schanberg

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it…

— Lady Gaga

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular…

— Harrison Ford

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write…

— Bob Weir

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the…

— Patti Smith

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in…

— Jacques Barzun

Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a…

— Philip Glass

When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind…

— Trent Reznor

I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my…

— Sarah Kay

Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves?…

— Rebecca Goldstein

'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's…

— Cary Fukunaga

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie,…

— Mark Waid

So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in…

— Joseph Beuys

I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,…

— Sufjan Stevens

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not…

— Douglas Adams

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer.…

— David Sedaris

To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider…

— Eric Foner