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Figures Quotes - Page 11

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

Marie Dressler (1924). “The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts”, New York : R.M. McBride

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

"Prose and cons" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

Jules Verne (2003). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.44, Bantam Classics

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from September 1725 to May 1732”, p.373

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

"An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.