Figures Quotes

2652 quotes by 1970 authors

I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the hurry? I keep… — Magda Gerber
Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying to do the… — Pete Carroll
I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or… — Bruce McCulloch
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what… — Keenen Ivory Wayans
The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights… — John Hillaby
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories… — Terry Brooks
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or… — Michael Novak
It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president. — Claire McCaskill
If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984.… — Michael Parenti
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's… — Alan Price
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry. — Paul Valery
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched… — Kit Williams
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. — Sam Brownback
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a… — Michel de Certeau
I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy… — Patrick Warburton
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed… — Bjorn Ulvaeus
I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports… — Herschel Walker
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. — Barry Watson
We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third… — Kate Clinton
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped… — Judith Light

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