Figures Quotes

I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

Each of us will figure out our own way.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation." "How do you figure?" "They are still breathing, aren't they?

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

Authority figures always attract trouble

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

I think what you've seen them do recently in the markets is what most of us learn doesn't ultimately work. But I think everyone has to figure that on their own.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

I love the figure to get across what I feel.

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.