Quotes about Figures

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Votes: 4

Figures don't lie, but liars figure. Votes: 3

Oh nookie in the stacks.Figures you're the type to have that fantasy, grad school and all." Votes: 3

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano. Votes: 3

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face. Votes: 3

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. Votes: 3

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders Votes: 3

For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go. Votes: 3

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. Votes: 3

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time. Votes: 3

No one can figure out your worth but you. Votes: 2

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. Votes: 2

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. Votes: 2

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures. Votes: 2

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. Votes: 2

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. Votes: 2

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Votes: 2

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. Votes: 2

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. Votes: 2

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. Votes: 2

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. Votes: 2

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. Votes: 2

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity. Votes: 2

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. Votes: 2

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. Votes: 2

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. Votes: 2

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. Votes: 2

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. Votes: 2

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. Votes: 2

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. Votes: 2

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. Votes: 2

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. Votes: 2

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions. Votes: 2

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. Votes: 2

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in. Votes: 2

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Votes: 2

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference. Votes: 2

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six. Votes: 2

You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones. Votes: 2

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. Votes: 2

I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out. Votes: 2

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Votes: 2

As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners. Votes: 2

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. Votes: 2

Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies. Votes: 2

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind. Votes: 2

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines. Votes: 2

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. Votes: 2

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women. Votes: 2

Authority figures always attract trouble Votes: 0

I like ideas, frameworks, and figures. Votes: 0

The public doesn't care about figures. Votes: 0

This fight figures to be crunk Votes: 0

I never pay any attention to figures. Votes: 0

Attitudes are the real figures of speech. Votes: 0

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. Votes: 0

None of the rest of my life figures here. Votes: 0

What if she figures out you're not very smart? Votes: 0

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. Votes: 0

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel. Votes: 0

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures. Votes: 0

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness. Votes: 0

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. Votes: 0

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. Votes: 0

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. Votes: 0

3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not. Votes: 0

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. Votes: 0

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. Votes: 0

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures. Votes: 0

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures. Votes: 0

Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away... Votes: 0

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. Votes: 0

Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away. Votes: 0

Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession. Votes: 0

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures. Votes: 0

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands. Votes: 0

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures. Votes: 0

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. Votes: 0

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. Votes: 0

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. Votes: 0

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. Votes: 0

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches. Votes: 0

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person. Votes: 0

It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful. Votes: 0

My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had, Votes: 0

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. Votes: 0

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. Votes: 0

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power. Votes: 0

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want. Votes: 0

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. Votes: 0

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be. Votes: 0

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas. Votes: 0

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. Votes: 0

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use. Votes: 0

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. Votes: 0

I masterbate in the shower. My action figures judge me. Especially the Justice League. Votes: 0

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures. Votes: 0

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Votes: 0

Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more. Votes: 0

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures. Votes: 0

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all. Votes: 0

I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures. Votes: 0

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile. Votes: 0

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. Votes: 0

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. Votes: 0

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s. Votes: 0

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically. Votes: 0

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto. Votes: 0

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. Votes: 0

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people. Votes: 0

figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell. Votes: 0

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. Votes: 0

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures. Votes: 0

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. Votes: 0

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest. Votes: 0

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality. Votes: 0

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' Votes: 0

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. Votes: 0

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. Votes: 0

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. Votes: 0

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Votes: 0

Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS. Votes: 0

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. Votes: 0

I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice. Votes: 0

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. Votes: 0

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. Votes: 0

There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system... Distort the figures Votes: 0

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why. Votes: 0

Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me. Votes: 0

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. Votes: 0

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures. Votes: 0

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures. Votes: 0

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. Votes: 0

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life. Votes: 0

The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding. Votes: 0

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures. Votes: 0

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. Votes: 0

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. Votes: 0

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. Votes: 0

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. Votes: 0

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. Votes: 0

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. Votes: 0

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. Votes: 0

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures. Votes: 0

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. Votes: 0

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial. Votes: 0

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. Votes: 0

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application. Votes: 0

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. Votes: 0

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure. Votes: 0

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures. Votes: 0

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy. Votes: 0

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward. Votes: 0

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes. Votes: 0

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies. Votes: 0

The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond. Votes: 0

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. Votes: 0

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem. Votes: 0

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail. Votes: 0

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. Votes: 0

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. Votes: 0

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. Votes: 0

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008) Votes: 0

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did. Votes: 0

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did Votes: 0

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is. Votes: 0

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves. Votes: 0

Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures. Votes: 0

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. Votes: 0

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha. Votes: 0

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing. Votes: 0

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent. Votes: 0

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. Votes: 0

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. Votes: 0

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. Votes: 0

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why. Votes: 0

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. Votes: 0

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. Votes: 0

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page. Votes: 0

I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures. Votes: 0

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives? Votes: 0

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer. Votes: 0

Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses. Votes: 0

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders. Votes: 0

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work. Votes: 0

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain Votes: 0

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to. Votes: 0

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. Votes: 0

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry. Votes: 0

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. Votes: 0

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming. Votes: 0

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. Votes: 0

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. Votes: 0

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. Votes: 0

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. Votes: 0

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. Votes: 0

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment. Votes: 0

The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go. Votes: 0

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art. Votes: 0

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. Votes: 0

I've signed a few Kaytoo photos and things and a couple of action figures [on ComicCon], but really it's not that many. Votes: 0

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo, Votes: 0

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons. Votes: 0

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. Votes: 0

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures." Votes: 0

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures. Votes: 0

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. Votes: 0

Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals. Votes: 0

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux. Votes: 0

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures. Votes: 0

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. Votes: 0

Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR. Votes: 0

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor. Votes: 0

The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet. Votes: 0

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. Votes: 0

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time Votes: 0

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure. Votes: 0

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say. Votes: 0

She open her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his figures continued playing with out pause. Votes: 0

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. Votes: 0

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think. Votes: 0

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty. Votes: 0

Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes. Votes: 0

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry. Votes: 0

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial. Votes: 0

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech. Votes: 0

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. Votes: 0

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier. Votes: 0

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. Votes: 0

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves. Votes: 0

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures. Votes: 0

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. Votes: 0

Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging? Votes: 0

Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility. Votes: 0

People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible about it. Votes: 0

there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture. Votes: 0

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side. Votes: 0

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. Votes: 0

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. Votes: 0

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different. Votes: 0

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you. Votes: 0

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. Votes: 0

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures. Votes: 0

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it. Votes: 0

What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. Votes: 0

Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way. Votes: 0

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. Votes: 0

Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams. Votes: 0

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. Votes: 0

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't. Votes: 0

Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development. Votes: 0

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs. Votes: 0

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust. Votes: 0

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts. Votes: 0

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. Votes: 0

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon. Votes: 0

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. Votes: 0

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. Votes: 0

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets. Votes: 0

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures. Votes: 0

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection. Votes: 0

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. Votes: 0

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are. Votes: 0

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful. Votes: 0

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part. Votes: 0

In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left. Votes: 0

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that. Votes: 0

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives. Votes: 0

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities. Votes: 0

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil. Votes: 0

I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti. Votes: 0

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others. Votes: 0

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked. Votes: 0

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. Votes: 0

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now. Votes: 0

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally. Votes: 0

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Votes: 0

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures "“ it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development. Votes: 0

Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other. Votes: 0

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. Votes: 0

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain. Votes: 0

One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures. Votes: 0

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind." Votes: 0

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). Votes: 0

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots. Votes: 0

I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years. Votes: 0

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me. Votes: 0

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive. Votes: 0

Why does everyone like this movie? And Americans kept going to the movie. So Hollywood figures out the market, and the market wants to know what happened in Benghazi. Votes: 0

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all. Votes: 0

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do. Votes: 0

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men. Votes: 0

I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned. Votes: 0

Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction. Votes: 0

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope with it... Votes: 0

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them. Votes: 0

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out. Votes: 0

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies. Votes: 0

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. Votes: 0

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance. Votes: 0

Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time. Votes: 0

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country. Votes: 0

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. Votes: 0

That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background. Votes: 0

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word. Votes: 0

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing. Votes: 0

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish. Votes: 0

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. Votes: 0

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures. Votes: 0

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance. Votes: 0

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country. Votes: 0

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression. Votes: 0

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around. Votes: 0

I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games. Votes: 0

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not. Votes: 0

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history. Votes: 0

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished." Votes: 0

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody. Votes: 0

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.' Votes: 0

People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead. Votes: 0

I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans. Votes: 0

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. Votes: 0

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become. Votes: 0

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves. Votes: 0

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure. Votes: 0

Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more. Votes: 0

In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order. Votes: 0

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not. Votes: 0

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all. Votes: 0

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words. Votes: 0

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, wer I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life. Votes: 0

Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development. Votes: 0

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial. Votes: 0

But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires. Votes: 0

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out. Votes: 0

To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society. Votes: 0

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist Votes: 0

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. Votes: 0

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. Votes: 0

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. Votes: 0

Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed. Votes: 0

What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games. Votes: 0

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made. Votes: 0

The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. Votes: 0

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.. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile, Votes: 0

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. Votes: 0

Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness. Votes: 0

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another. Votes: 0

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome. Votes: 0

AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together. Votes: 0

Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments. Votes: 0

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. Votes: 0

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art Votes: 0

Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. Votes: 0