Figures Quotes - Page 5

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe.

Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

I always feel like there’s no fighter that I can’t figure out.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

I have a million dollar figure ... but it's all loose change.

Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

Love represents a lot of things. You can be in love with someone, you can be in love with something. You don't know why you love something so much, you just do. You gravitate towards it and then you figure it out later.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.