Figures Quotes

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

I've signed a few Kaytoo photos and things and a couple of action figures [on ComicCon], but really it's not that many.

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling. "Well...no," I admitted. "Do it." "How?" He shrugged. "Figure it out." "You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.

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 clinging to the roots.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.

It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

Figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

The public doesn't care about figures.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.

There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system... Distort the figures

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures.

I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad." -Jace