Figures Quotes · Page 31

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

I'm really convinced I'm not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.

— Lily Allen

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

— Bill James

figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

— Mabel Seeley

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

— Kay Panabaker

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

— Alan Jackson

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

— Charles Krauthammer

I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment…

— Barbara Johnson

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to…

— Pharrell Williams

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and…

— Erin Willett

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd…

— Alexander Skarsgard

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins…

— Robert Frost

I never could figure out how those people like Bukowski could be both carousers and writers at the same time, because to…

— Dan Chaon

If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its…

— Wyndham Lewis

Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.

— Jay Leno

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish…

— Evangelista Torricelli

I want to let [my photographs] be something that comes from the model in her own way. I don't want to take…

— Mario Sorrenti

The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can…

— Emma Roberts

Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public…

— Moby

Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he…

— Kate DiCamillo

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to…

— Essence Atkins

I went from being just a kid to all of a sudden not being able to walk a block without a man…

— Rose McGowan

Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels…

— Anonymous

It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a…

— J. B. Priestley

It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes…

— Isaac Newton

Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I…

— Richelle Mead

People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way…

— Paul Saffo

I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and…

— Liv Tyler

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one…

— Joe Pass

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor…

— Henry Adams

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

— W. Edwards Deming

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

“Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

— John D'Agata

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

— David Hilbert

I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.

— Dave Winfield

You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don't think hellions are much into social networking.

— Rachel Vincent

I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

— Al Yankovic