Figures Quotes · Page 47

I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.

— Chris Bosh

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

— Robert Orben

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

— Stephen Breyer

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

— Nathan Oliveira

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

— John Laroche

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

— Ara Parseghian

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality…

— John Lennon

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to…

— Bob Waterston

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We…

— Diana L. Eck

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are…

— Neal Shusterman

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured…

— Christian Metz

[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.…

— Tina Barney

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But…

— Francis Bacon

Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I…

— George H. W. Bush

I remember when we were doing "Batman Begins" and to watch Chris Nolan go from "Memento" to "Batman" and take that leap…

— Katie Holmes

It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and…

— Matsuo Basho

I started playing with digital technology early on in my work. I made digital collages with costumed figures using early versions of…

— Saya Woolfalk

I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having…

— Clint Howard

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie,…

— Mark Waid

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

— Jay Leno

... he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

— Cody Lundin

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

— Yann Martel

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

— Bob Fosse

I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is.

— Sachin Tendulkar

The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value.

— Tony Robbins

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

— Princess Diana

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.

— Tony Hsieh

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

— Stephen Kinzer

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

— Joely Fisher

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.

— Christopher Walken

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs…

— Audrey Hepburn

You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

— Steve Jobs