Figures Quotes · Page 44

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

— Andy Andrews

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

— Bill Bruford

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

— Cynthia Nixon

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

— Jacob Lew

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

— Leonard Cohen

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

— Amy Poehler

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

— Joe Teti

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular…

— Harrison Ford

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

— Caroline Knapp

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and…

— Atom Egoyan

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

— Teddy Wayne

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys…

— Rickey Henderson

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to…

— T. S. Eliot

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I…

— Totie Fields

Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all…

— Ben Maddow

It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back…

— Naomi Watts

What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at…

— George Scialabba

In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure…

— Todd Haynes

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a…

— Richard Marshall

There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places,…

— Charlie Campbell

A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet…

— George Lucas

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if…

— Mallory Jansen

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

— Georges St-Pierre

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do…

— Seth Godin

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

— John Baldessari

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

— Vincent Cassel

Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a…

— Dana White

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

— Murray Walker

Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me.

— Drake

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

— Matt Groening

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

— David Ogilvy

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

— Denis Diderot

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

— Yancy Butler

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

— Will Rogers