Figures Quotations

No one can figure out your worth but you.

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.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

Mint's business model became, 'We'll go for free, and then we'll find these savings opportunities for you.' You know, better interest rate on your credit cards, when should you consolidate your student loans, when does it mathematically make sense to refinance your mortgage, and Mint figures all that stuff out for you.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or co-workers - because there's still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

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.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.

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.

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.

I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!

According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

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

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

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

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.

I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.

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

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

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.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.

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

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

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

In 2013, Samsung accounted for about 20 percent of South Korea's total business profits. Samsung Electronics, just one of scores of subsidiaries, accounts for close to 15 percent of the total shares in the South Korean stock market. But you don't need to know these figures to get a feel for Samsung's hold on the country.

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

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.

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

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

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

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

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

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

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

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

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

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

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.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

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

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

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

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.

I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

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

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

Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

I was a big wrestling fan growing up. That was my thing. I had the action figures and the magazines and everything like that.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.