Figures Quotes

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I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. — Sarah Vowell
But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures… — Jane Mayer
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only… — Len G. Murray
When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more… — Joe Sacco
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. — Georg Brandes
I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures. — Anatoly Chubais
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or… — Paul von Hindenburg
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. — Barry Unsworth
The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures… — John Redwood
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense… — Jacques Barzun
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. — Arthur Smith
I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection. — Jason Marsden
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production… — Michael Gove
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets… — James Fenton
Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it… — Tony Judt
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally… — David Carr
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies.… — Henry Miller
Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to learn and research for yourself, it tends to be safer for exploitative and… — Teresa Stover
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.… — Aristotle
Figures never lie, but liars often figure — Samuel Butler

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