Figures Quotes · Page 3

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I…

— Robert Winston

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

— Kerry Washington

For me, I try to look at a person's swagger and a little background on them if I already haven't liked them…

— Michael Bivins

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never…

— Anonymous

Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

— Dinesh Sharma

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

— Norman Vincent Peale

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

— Don Marquis

When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the…

— Jeremiah Brent

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I…

— Alan Greenspan

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and…

— Marshall McLuhan

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

— Diane Ravitch

Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by…

— James Dobson

I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about.…

— Scarlett Johansson

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

— Michio Kaku

I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out…

— Warren Spector

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

— Charles Van Doren

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

— Biz Stone

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure…

— George Russell

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

— Anonymous

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure…

— Corey Taylor

[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like…

— Dolly Parton

The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.

— Raul Hilberg

I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor,…

— Rush Limbaugh