Figures Quotes · Page 17

Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.

— Jack LaLanne

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.

— Chris Bosh

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

— John Laroche

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

— Stephen Breyer

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

— Nathan Oliveira

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

— Robert Orben

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a…

— Geddy Lee

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them…

— Evgeni Plushenko

Most startup companies have two people, and they figure out creative ways to swarm problems. They move faster and have more impact.

— Scott D. Anthony

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like…

— Jesse Metcalfe

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I…

— Macaulay Culkin

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan…

— John Heilemann

You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a…

— Jim Courier

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

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up…

— Joseph Addison

In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,…

— Edward Thomson

When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of…

— Shirley M. Tilghman

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a…

— Louisa May Alcott

The stress that we [with Abilities] always feel is trying to continue advancing with our music. That's our plight, it's ingrained in…

— Eyedea

His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When…

— Robert Musil

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our…

— Seth Godin

In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving…

— Jim Thompson

In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just…

— Felix Salmon

If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In…

— Vincent Van Gogh

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a…

— Anthony Powell

Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In…

— Cyprian

I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would…

— Lena Dunham

For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation…

— Marilyn Manson

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

— A. P. Herbert

What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get…

— Stan Musial

My number one beauty secret is to stay true to yourself and figure out what works best for your body.

— Adriana Lima

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

— Peter Kropotkin

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.

— Andre Previn

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

— Alan Watts

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

— Gordon Ramsay

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

— Danger Mouse