Figures Quotes - Page 9

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.

I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.