Figures Quotes · Page 42

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

— Stephen Kinzer

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

— Usher

A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

— Joe Thompson

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

— Don Watson

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.

— Andre Malraux

God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe.

— Joel Osteen

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what…

— Bear Bryant

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

— Bill Cosby

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

— George Russell

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do…

— Moby

I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final…

— Brit Marling

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence…

— Ashton Kutcher

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like…

— Scarlett Johansson

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't…

— Larry King

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all…

— Maria V. Snyder

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way…

— Willem de Kooning

Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the…

— Janet Evanovich

I've become this voice for a millennial generation of feminism, which is awesome, but at the same time it's complicated. We all…

— Bethany Cosentino

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out…

— Eva Mendes

It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you…

— K. M. Soehnlein

It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep…

— Marwan al-Muasher

I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and…

— Katie Couric

Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved…

— Paul Di Filippo

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be…

— Anonymous

I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this…

— Irvine Welsh

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a…

— Paul Auster

A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's…

— Alison Kitson

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

— Adelina Sotnikova

Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.

— Jonah Peretti

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness…

— Joseph Brodsky

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

— Natalie Merchant

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

— Mark Lanegan

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.

— Brian Kilmeade

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

— Eddie Vedder

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

— Chrisette Michele

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

— Mike Lofgren

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

— Robert Pozen

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

The clearer you are about why you want to accomplish a goal, the easier it will be to figure how to accomplish…

— John Fairclough