Figure Quotes

2773 Figure quotes by 2038 unique authors

The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights… — John Hillaby
It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president. — Claire McCaskill
If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984.… — Michael Parenti
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched… — Kit Williams
I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy… — Patrick Warburton
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed… — Bjorn Ulvaeus
I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports… — Herschel Walker
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. — Barry Watson
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped… — Judith Light
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White… — Harry Shearer
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap
I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged… — Anne Rice
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened… — Richard Brautigan
Yes I marked the spot in the garage..when I was back at the house on December 22. They had asked me with all of the… — John Wayne Gacy
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed… — Robert Greenwald
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take… — Jeff Tweedy
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the… — Lance Morrow
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started… — Jeff Ament
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which… — Lord Chesterfield
If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through… — Dinaw Mengestu
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We… — Oliver Stone
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over… — Alan Bennett
Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure… — Unknown Author
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls… — George Eliot

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