Figures Quotes

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We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told… — Jonathan Stroud
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was… — John Sculley
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them. — Paul Ekman
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those… — Warren Spahn
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than… — Fred Hoyle
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything — Stephen Leacock
It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly… — Douglas Hofstadter
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process… — Seth Lloyd
Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest. — Karen Russell
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to… — David Geffen
Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust. — David Irving
Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us… — Herman Wouk
The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they… — Ben Silbermann
Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using… — Thelonious Monk
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own. — Dizzy Gillespie
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment… — Jolene Blalock
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is. — Marina Warner
Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to… — Mother Jones

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