Figuring Quotes
266 quotes by 244 authors
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I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so…
— Jim Henson
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Knock, Knock." "Who's there?" "Olive." "Olive who?" "Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you…
— Jean Ferris
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Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words…
— Daniel Handler
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All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your…
— Jodi Picoult
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Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with…
— David Levithan
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You're a Dhampir," I breathed. "So are you." he teased. "Yeah, but I just thought—" "That I was human? Because of the bite marks?" "Yeah."…
— Richelle Mead
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I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
— Kathryn Stockett
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Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very…
— Katherine Paterson
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But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever…
— Jodi Picoult
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I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up…
— Haruki Murakami
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The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were…
— Reif Larsen
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We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion…
— Shonda Rhimes
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For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd…
— Tim O'Brien
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The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)
— Nicholas Sparks
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Composer†is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is…
— Daniel Handler
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True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
— John Waters
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High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint,…
— David Sedaris
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No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of…
— Paul Auster
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The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all…
— Justine Larbalestier
Who Wrote These Figuring Quotes
244 authors contributed a total of 266 Figuring Quotes, led by these top contributors: