Figures Quotes · Page 39

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

— Charles Saatchi

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

— Joni Mitchell

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

— Taylor Branch

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

— Katy Perry

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.

— Henry Louis Gates

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

— Kiki Smith

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

— Warren Buffett

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

— Roger Lewin

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we,…

— Moby

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if…

— Richard P. Feynman

It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads…

— Palmer Luckey

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I…

— Amy Tan

I wasn't trying to be rich or famous; I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won't…

— T. D. Jakes

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very…

— Scott Hamilton

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need…

— Walker Evans

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to…

— Kehinde Wiley

Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's…

— Errol Morris

While you're in the moment of anything that's confusing in your life, you're in the moment, and you have to figure it…

— Linda Blair

I think it's important to have confidence, but then it's also important to try to try something new, to leave your comfort…

— Kadir Nelson

Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our…

— Arvid Carlsson

This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep…

— Scott McNealy

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good…

— Forest Whitaker

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure…

— Wendell Berry

So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It…

— Tim Cook

My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in…

— Maurice Blanchot

It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place.…

— Marjorie Harris

It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,…

— Charlie Munger

It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating…

— Malcolm Forbes

The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie…

— Jared Leto

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

— Seth Godin

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

— John Malkovich

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

— David Mitchell

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

— David Duchovny

“Any outfit that can’t figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can’t benefit from my advice.”

— Cory Doctorow

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Charles Van Doren

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

— Lawrence O'Donnell