Figures Quotes

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

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

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

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't add up.

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

When companies start out, they figure out a better way to do something, and they're very relevant.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.