Figures Quotes - Page 30

• The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  God, Men, Mind

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.212, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  People, Bottom, Driveway

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• 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.

  Hamish Linklater

  Home, Always Trying, Grew Up

  "Hamish Linklater Stops Time, Fights Aliens, Discovers The Future". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

  Spike Jonze

  Emotion, Messy, Hard

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• All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

  Hill Harper

  Passion, Heart, Journey

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• If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

  Seth Godin

  Art, Trying, Ifs

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• You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ends, Thread, Needles

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• I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Girlfriend, People, Guy

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• The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

  John Hillaby

  Air, Fishing, Water

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• It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

  Claire McCaskill

  Distance, Party, Mind

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

  Paul Valery

  Math, Quality, World

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• The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

  Kit Williams

  Men, Hands, Wheels

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• The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

  Patrick Warburton

  Character, Interesting, Typical

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

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• I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Hate, Writing

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• It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Piano, Keys

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• The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

  Harry Shearer

  Hype, White, House

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• I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical.

  Johannes Kepler

  Fall, Reading, Science

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

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Groups, Pals

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• The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Work, Math, Uniforms

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• I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

  Anne Rice

  Love, Hands, Together

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• In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Love, Lying, Reading

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.339, Random House

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• The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened between them or just tumbling head-over-heels down into romantic oblivion where the image of a remembered kiss provokes bottomless despair and makes death seem like the right idea.He experienced the basics of love ended.

  Richard Brautigan

  Love, Kissing, Winning

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Women, Roots, Brain

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

  Robert Greenwald

  Tunnels, Talking, Years

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

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