Figures Quotes

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

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.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.

I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.

Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.