Figures Quotes

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.

Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.

Just say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did