Figures Quotes

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She open her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his figures continued playing with out pause. — Patricia Briggs
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders — Peter Matthiessen
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible… — Francine Prose
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want… — Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands.… — Carrie Underwood
you're the gallagher girl. figure it out."- zach — Ally Carter
Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say… — Samuel R. Delany
Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace… — Andrew Sean Greer
I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood. — Jonathan Safran Foer
We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.… — Kurt Vonnegut
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick… — Lewis Grizzard
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008) — George W. Bush
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course… — Stephen King
In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend Iâ€™m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters… — David Sedaris
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real. — Rodman Philbrick
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional… — Kate Atkinson
She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save… — Cormac McCarthy

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