Figures Quotes · Page 167

Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really…

— Kadir Nelson

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 would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured…

— Christian Metz

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

— Idi Amin

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film…

— Lawrence Jordan

You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him…

— Lemmy Kilmister

A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's…

— Alison Kitson

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way.…

— Jordan Peele

You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?

— Twiggy

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W.Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's…

— Tom Lehrer

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

— Kelley Armstrong

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that…

— Alexander Hamilton

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

— Joe Thompson

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

— Emmitt Smith

Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their…

— Lewis M. Branscomb

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school…

— Scott Hamilton

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

— Mary Schmich

There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the…

— Toni Morrison

That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically…

— Jessica Lange

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds…

— Anonymous

The Democratic lawmakers are still trying to figure out how to capitalize on this new wave of leftist anger, if you want…

— Chuck Todd

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden