Figures Quotes · Page 42

I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends,…

— Tamsin Egerton

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be…

— Gurbaksh Chahal

My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband…

— Monica Denise Brown

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying…

— Ken Jennings

There's something unique about me, we just can't figure out what it is.

— Steven Jackson

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.…

— Chaim Potok

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I’m crap at what I do. I think…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to…

— Lev Grossman

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest…

— Edouard Manet

It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's…

— Kevin Spacey

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English…

— Herschel Walker

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting,…

— Morton Feldman

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged…

— Mark Twain

The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to…

— Richard North Patterson

We're seeing the convergence of a big, corporate party right now. A sort of bipartisan merger under the figure of Hillary Clinton.

— Jill Stein

Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight,…

— Shailene Woodley

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that…

— Alfred Kazin

Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and…

— Mark Deklin

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same…

— Roland Barthes

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and…

— Richard Posner

It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve…

— Theo Rossi

In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we…

— Gilles Marini

People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . .…

— Joe Orton

Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever…

— Christian McKay

Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of…

— Cindy Gerard