Figures Quotes - Page 16

• I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

  John Tenniel

  Nature, Use, Models

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• In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Team, Kids, White

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

  Megyn Kelly

  Jesus, Mean, Men

  "No, Megyn Kelly, Santa Is Not White" by Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Excellence

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

  Alex Katz

  Simple, Complicated

  Alex Katz, Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann (1999). “Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra”, Hopeful Monsters

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• The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

  Jim Dine

  Dine In, Have Faith, Matter

  Jim Dine, Constance Glenn, California State University, Long Beach. Art Museum and Galleries (1979). “Jim Dine figure drawings, 1975-1979: published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, October 15-November 11, 1979”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

  Oksana Baiul

  Skating, Enjoy, Time Off

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Growing Up, Stories, Our Society

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• I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was from. Why I didn’t go to Steve Jobs and say, ‘Steve, let’s figure out how you can come back and lead your company.’ I didn’t do that, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I can’t figure out why I didn’t have the wisdom to do that. But I didn’t. And as life has it, shortly after that, I was fired.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, New York, Mistake

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• It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

  Fred Hoyle

  Fun, Self, Ironic

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• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Writing, Islands

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, House

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

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• In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

  Seth Lloyd

  Order, Atoms, Information

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• Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

  Karen Russell

  Stories

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• Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

  David Geffen

  Artist, People, Trying

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• Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

  David Irving

  Holocaust, Experts, Gas

  " David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2006.

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• Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

  Herman Wouk

  Dream, Strong, Pain

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• The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

  Ben Silbermann

  People, Entrepreneur, Feelings

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• Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

  Thelonious Monk

  Running, Adventure, Use

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• Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Crazy, Men, Play

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• Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Views, Strange

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• It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

  Jolene Blalock

  Who I Am, Years, Accepting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Marina Warner

  Flow, Kind, All Kinds

  Marina Warner (1987). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, Picador

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• Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.

  Eric Ries

  Goal, Matter, Want

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business

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• The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Three, Existence, Accidents

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