Figures Quotes - Page 10

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

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

When companies start out, they figure out a better way to do something, and they're very relevant.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

I've always been very happy with my role in Radiohead. You're very much a part of everything, but you're much more of a shadowy figure.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!