Figures Quotes - Page 35

• I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Hair, Skulls

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• I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Art, Home, Wells

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• My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

  Serj Tankian

  Crazy, Civilization, Two

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Body, Should, Materials

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

  Richard Griffiths

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

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• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Divorce, Epidemics

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• Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pieces, Sides, Language

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha,5”, p.221

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• 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.

  George MacDonald

  Inspire, Feelings, Age

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• A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.52, BookBaby

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• I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Trying, Hollywood

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• From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Adam Savage

  Forever, Stories, Done

  "The Truth About MythBusters". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. May 15, 2013.

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• An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.

  Carlo Wolff

  Blow, Political, Admirer

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• The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.

  Kate Kelly

  Sight, Opposites, Smell

  Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo (2006). “You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Travel, Typical, Nuisance

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.202, New Directions Publishing

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• If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fun, Justice, Mercy

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.88, Ivy Books

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• I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

  Peg Bracken

  Tombstone, Long, People

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (The Sunrise Collector: What to Do till Your Horoscope Gets There)". Book by Peg Bracken (Fawcett Crest edition, p. 37), 1969.

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• It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Law, Century

  Gore Vidal (1982). “Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)”

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• Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

  Robert Breault

  Kids, Experience, Life Is

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• A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Evil

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• Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

  Alan Vega

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

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• Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Hands, People

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• God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Church, Want

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• Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.

  David Levering Lewis

  Eric, Renaissance, May

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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