Figures Quotes

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It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off,… — J. B. Priestley
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White… — Harry Shearer
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings… — Johannes Kepler
I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. — Vincent Van Gogh
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings:… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged… — Anne Rice
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,… — Gary Shteyngart
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened… — Richard Brautigan
Yes I marked the spot in the garage..when I was back at the house on December 22. They had asked me with all of the… — John Wayne Gacy
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth… — Ambrose Bierce
With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher… — Josh Marshall
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed… — Robert Greenwald
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take… — Jeff Tweedy
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the… — Lance Morrow
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started… — Jeff Ament
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which… — Lord Chesterfield
If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more… — Alessandro Del Piero
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the… — Robert Jensen

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