Figure Quotes

2773 Figure quotes by 2038 unique authors

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. — Mignon McLaughlin
I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets. — Judd Apatow
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that… — Adam Savage
The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted… — Kate Kelly
I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. — Stephen Chbosky
An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . .… — Carlo Wolff
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek… — Robert Fulghum
I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep… — Brian McKnight
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. — Robert Breault
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more… — Carl Jung
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to… — Alan Vega
Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work… — Alan Gottlieb
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had… — William Ernest Henley
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned… — Andre Gide
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington — William E. Gladstone
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. — Henry A. Kissinger
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you… — John Green
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. — Robert M. Pirsig
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his… — William Saroyan
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what… — Ernest Gaines
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg… — Alice Meynell

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