Figures Quotes

If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.

I like to keep my girlish figure

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Don’t buy market share. Figure out how to earn it.

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.