Figures Quotes

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I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull… — Joyce Tenneson
I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take… — Steven Levy
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the… — Serj Tankian
I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice. — Richard Griffiths
The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have… — Elizabeth Jane Howard
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there… — Miguel de Cervantes
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the… — George MacDonald
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. — Mignon McLaughlin
I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets. — Judd Apatow
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want… — Lori Earley
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that… — Adam Savage
The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He canâ€™t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, heâ€™s so distracted… — Kate Kelly
I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. — Stephen Chbosky
An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . .… — Carlo Wolff
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek… — Robert Fulghum
I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep… — Brian McKnight
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other… — Peg Bracken
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal

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