Figures Quotes - Page 5

• You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

  Virgil Thomson

  Way

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• If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

  Bill Bruford

  Hearing, Ifs

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  If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

  James Lee Burke

  Giving, Cracks, Rockets

  Interview with April Henry, www.aprilhenrymysteries.com. 1999.

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• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

  Daniel Clowes

  Years, Trying, Stories

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• I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.

  Tim Conway

  Kids, Emotional, People

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• I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

  Richard Foreman

  Years, Trying, Lasts

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• I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

  Haley Joel Osment

  People, Spiders, Height

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• These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

  Payne Stewart

  Winning, Guy, Down And

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• Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

  Jules Shear

  Gigs

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• One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

  John M. McHugh

  Seven, Staggering

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• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  Sally Schneider

  People, Path, Serious

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• No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Dream, Age, Saying Yes

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 06, 2016

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• 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.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

  Nick Cannon

  New York, Hollywood, Want

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• A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

  Minna Antrim

  Inspirational, Life, Women

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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  Camille Claudel

  Fire, Squash, Hammers

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• Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

  Nora Roberts

  Different, Tools, Literature

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• A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

  Issey Miyake

  Art, Body, Great Things

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• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Play, Pieces

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• No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

  Albrecht Durer

  Taken, Men, Perfect

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• Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

  George Thorogood

  Moving, Albums, Records

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• Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Men, Mountain

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• Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

  Les Aspin

  Iraq, Long, Safe

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• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Today, Students

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• I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

  Steve Case

  School, College, Thinking

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