Figures Quotes

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I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and… — Brian Selznick
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs… — Michael Chabon
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that… — Sylvester Stallone
You and me?â€ I let out a stunned bark of laughter. â€œThere is no you and me.â€ â€œThatâ€™s what you think,â€ Chaz says, tugging on… — Meg Cabot
Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy.Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend… — Nora Roberts
The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of… — Italo Calvino
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to… — Edith Wharton
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Peter Kropotkin
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. — Jack Kerouac
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world.… — Richard P. Feynman
It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. — Ann Patchett
None of the rest of my life figures here. — Joyce Carol Oates
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. — Woody Allen
I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out,… — Jonathan Ames
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time… — Bill Watterson
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? — Eckhart Tolle
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it. — Erin Gruwell
Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have… — James A. Owen
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it;… — Flannery O'Connor

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