Figure Quotes

2773 Figure quotes by 2038 unique authors

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as… — Thomas Carlyle
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to… — Larry Niven
Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet.… — Tina Fey
Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right — Bear Bryant
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave… — Louis C. K.
I don't trust valets, waiters — nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press. — Nicole Richie
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself. — Stan Musial
You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved. — George W. Bush
So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and… — Joseph Beuys
Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of… — Marquis de Sade
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind… — Neil Peart
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be… — Paul Thomas Anderson
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary; his writing is… — Debby Applegate
One of the most important things is to figure out what your look is — I don't wear this black suit-white shirt combination all the… — Tom Ford
Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one.… — Patrick Demarchelier
Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live… — Chuck Jones
In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't… — Boris Johnson
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing… — Andrew Solomon
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos. — Bill Gates
I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out. — Lily Allen
I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be. — Princess Diana
The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot… — Bill Drayton
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero. — Monica Lewinsky
The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the… — Tom Lehrer

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