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Figures Quotes by George Orwell
- If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not…
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a…
- Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
- When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For…
- The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and…
More Figures Quotes
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. — Lance Armstrong
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers… — Charles Babbage
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure. — Michele Bachmann
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. — Erykah Badu
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most… — Philip James Bailey
- A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the… — Russell Baker
- I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale