Figures Quotes · Page 168

I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the…

— Mike Patton

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific…

— Christine Sneed

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

— Gordon S. Wood

Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but…

— Raheem Devaughn

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better…

— E. Lockhart

So one day he found her crying Coiled up on the dirty ground Her prince finally came to save her & the…

— Hayley Williams

When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave…

— John Glenn

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

— Del Close

Generally, you're always shooting in the dark with Beyonce. She's just creative and eclectic and up on always trying to be ahead…

— Bryce Wilson

It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker…

— Noam Chomsky

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't…

— Justin Halpern

Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the…

— Charles Dickens

The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size…

— Harold Morowitz

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a…

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really…

— Ann Goldstein

I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also…

— Roxane Gay

The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.

— Bob Goff

Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

— Noam Chomsky

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure…

— Edward Weston

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

— Henry Giroux

When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also…

— Al Jaffee

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write…

— Brit Marling

Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly…

— Camille Paglia

Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -…

— Bob Hawke