Figures Quotes

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

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

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.

You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

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

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology is this way.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when