Figures Quotes

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Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through… — Dinaw Mengestu
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the… — Joseph de Maistre
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his… — Plutarch
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We… — Oliver Stone
People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible… — Joe Orton
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over… — Alan Bennett
Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure… — Unknown Author
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls… — George Eliot
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as… — Thomas Carlyle
The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed… — Brandon Sanderson
The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas. — David Hilbert
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. — Henri Poincare
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements… — Rene Descartes
Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in… — Tom Hornbein
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible… — Galileo Galilei
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to… — Larry Niven
Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet.… — Tina Fey
Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right — Bear Bryant
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave… — Louis C. K.

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