Figures Quotes

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

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

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure.

The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

I always say whoever can figure out how to make ice cream healthy will be a gazillionaire.

God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe.

I have a million dollar figure ... but it's all loose change.

I always feel like there’s no fighter that I can’t figure out.

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.