Figures Quotes · Page 100

I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister…

— Jim Butcher

The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect…

— Dave McKean

Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more,…

— Bram Stoker

We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when…

— Ken Kesey

Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And…

— Frederick Lenz

But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of…

— Joseph Needham

I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is.

— Sachin Tendulkar

I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

— Justin Trudeau

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

— Judith Viorst

The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of…

— Lisa Edelstein

There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of…

— Chuck Todd

Learn from your mistakes, trying to figure out what the best way to go forward is.

— Hillary Clinton

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

— Malala Yousafzai

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

— Ellen Gallagher

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

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

— Tori Amos

The way something looks is the last thing we figure out

— Alexander Isley

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…

— Etty Hillesum

If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for…

— Paul Orfalea

This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I…

— Michael Shannon

In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a…

— Deborah Butterfield

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to…

— Monica Ali

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or…

— John O. Brennan

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's so hard to figure out how to end a TV show.

— Scott Aukerman

The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

— Jodi Picoult

To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can…

— Alexander Stille

Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with…

— Phyllis Hyman

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

— Bob Fosse

We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the…

— Northrop Frye

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give…

— David Levithan

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

— Joe Teti

I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to…

— Jonathan Ames

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really…

— Robert Penn Warren