Figurehead Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and…
— Robin Williams
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I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for…
— J. G. Ballard
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Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to…
— Laurence J. Peter
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People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one.…
— Robyn Lawley
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While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the…
— Leonard Maltin
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Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is…
— Oswald Chambers
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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
— Margaret Thatcher
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So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to…
— David Prowse
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They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue.…
— Peter York
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The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the…
— Ray Manzarek
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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only…
— Sarah Vowell
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You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I've learned. Every organization needs somebody standin' out front. Call it a figurehead, a leader, a headman, a kingpin, a president, whatever. It doesn't much…
— Lucky Luciano
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I think it's pointless to continually lie through your teeth to get into the Oval Office, where all you are is a figurehead and a…
— David Henning
Who Wrote These Figurehead Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Figurehead Quotes as follows: