Figures famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.
-- Aaron Allston -
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.
-- Adam Levine -
Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
-- Alan Arkin -
I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.
-- Alan Ladd -
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
-- Albert Einstein -
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
-- Alex Katz -
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...
-- Alexandra Potter -
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
-- Alfre Woodard -
Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling. "Well...no," I admitted. "Do it." "How?" He shrugged. "Figure it out." "You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.
-- Amanda Hocking -
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.
-- Amanda Peet -
But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.
-- Amy Tan -
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
-- Andre Bjerke -
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
-- Andre Malraux -
There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
-- Andre Previn -
I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.
-- Andrea Zittel -
No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.
-- Andrew Klavan -
It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
-- Andrew Mason -
You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
-- Andrew Weil -
Figure out how to do things that have never been done before,
-- Anita Dunn -
Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
-- Anne Lamott -
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The public doesn't care about figures.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
-- Arthur Cohn -
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.
-- Arthur Rock -
It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
-- Austin Kleon -
The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.
-- Ava DuVernay -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
-- Barbara Kruger -
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld -
Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.
-- Bart Decrem -
If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.
-- Bern Will Brown -
If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
-- Bill Bruford -
Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
-- Bill James -
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
-- Bill Walsh -
We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.
-- Biz Stone -
She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
-- Bob Fosse -
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
-- Bob Goff -
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
-- Bob Goff -
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.
-- Bob Waterston -
I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
-- Bob Woodward -
I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.
-- Bobby Bonilla -
When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.
-- Brad Grey -
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.
-- Brittany Murphy -
When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.
-- Bruce Nauman -
I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.
-- Carmen Kass -
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
-- Casey Stengel -
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.
-- Catherine Keener -
...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,
-- Chadwick Boseman -
My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,
-- Charles James -
My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
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.
-- Cheryl James -
I promise you, if you reach that point where you are not afraid to figure out who you are, what you want and what your values are, you will not fear that anymore. You will not do it, you will be smarter.
-- Christi Paul -
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
-- Christopher Bollen -
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
-- Chuck Close -
I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!
-- CM Punk -
I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
-- Cynthia Weil -
The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'.
-- Cyprian -
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.
-- Dave Chappelle -
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
-- David Copperfield -
As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.
-- David Einhorn -
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.
-- David Frum -
I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
-- David Gest -
The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.
-- David Hilbert -
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.
-- David Irving -
But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.
-- David Levithan -
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
-- David Mitchell -
Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.
-- Del Close -
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
-- Dennis Eckersley -
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.
-- Desmond Tutu -
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
-- Diana Krall -
Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.
-- Dik Browne -
In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.
-- Don Herold -
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
-- Donald Glover -
We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!
-- Donella Meadows -
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.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
-- Douglas Coupland -
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.
-- E. J. Hughes -
I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.
-- Eddie Murphy -
I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.
-- Edward Witten -
I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
-- Elon Musk -
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.
-- Emily Procter -
I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
-- Emma Watson -
I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.
-- Emmitt Smith -
It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.
-- Erez Lieberman Aiden -
Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
-- Ethan Hawke -
Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.
-- Eugene Jarecki -
Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.
-- Evan Esar -
It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.
-- Frank Buckles -
I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.
-- Freddie Gibbs -
Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
-- Gaby Hoffmann
