Figures Quotes

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Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life. — Michael Palmer
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula — Janet Evanovich
Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and… — Tony Dungy
Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel… — Meg Cabot
It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt… — Christopher Fowler
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell
Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking… — Cindy Gerard
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to… — Molly Ivins
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked… — Charles Dickens
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny… — Ken Kesey
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do… — Terry Pratchett
Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly.… — Rick Riordan
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in… — Thomas Hardy
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And… — William Shakespeare
Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out. — Sharon Creech
Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk,"… — Dean Koontz
The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could… — Bob Dylan
Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But… — Kathryn Stockett

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