Figures Quotes - Page 15

• Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

  Auguste Rodin

  Taken, Body, Torso

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• I just need to figure out how things work.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Needs

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• By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
  Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

  Helene Cixous

  Spring, Writing, Self

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• Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

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• Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

  Steven Pressfield

  Scare, Firsts

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• Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it.

  Eva Herzigova

  Worry, Care, Way

  "Eva Herzigova Is Confident She'll Shed Baby Weight" by Silvia Sansoni, people.com. October 30, 2007.

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• We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

  Jon Meacham

  Interesting, Trying, Males

  "Official Statement on NEWSWEEK's Sarah Palin Cover". www.newsweek.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

  Don Watson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Trying

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• Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.

  Jacob Collins

  Beauty, Fall, Games

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• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Desire, Causes

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Drawing, Together

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Start buying gold now, regardless of the price. By acting now, you will not have to react when it's too late. Too late will be when the majority of the public finally figures out what is happening to paper money and frantically tries to get aboard. Remember, if you're one of the ones holding paper in the end, you will have given away your products and services for nothing.

  Robert Ringer

  Acting, Gold, Trying

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• I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.

  Stewart Cink

  Golf, Games

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• There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Independent, Light

  "A life in pictures". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 1998.

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• A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

  Arthur Miller

  Boys, Doctors, Dollars

  Arthur Miller (1947). “All My Sons: Drama in Three Acts”, p.10, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Prayer, Our World

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• Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

  Bill Hybels

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

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• My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.

  George Galloway

  Growing Up, Real, Book

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• Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

  Paul Krugman

  Important, Hayek, Macroeconomics

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• Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Names, People

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• When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Way, Succeed

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• After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

  Stan Brakhage

  Opportunity, Doctors, Average

  Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”, Treacle Pr

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• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal

  L'Wren Scott

  Thinking, Perfect, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Book, Years, Wish

  Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it—an I.Q. or the like.

  Peter Medawar

  Believe, Science, Simple

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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