Figures Quotes - Page 7

• Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Children, Trying, Marketers

  6 Copy quote

• I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

  Bob Woodward

  People, Literature, Want

  9 Copy quote

• I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

  Joely Fisher

  Womanly

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

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to figure things out and solve problems.

  Temple Grandin

  Problem, Solve

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, I can't figure out God.

  Oral Roberts

  Figure Skating, Wells, I Can

  44 Copy quote

• Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

  William Petersen

  Dark, People, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

  Bob Woodward

  Book, Long, Asking

  6 Copy quote

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Stars, War, Kids

  7 Copy quote

• I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

  Wally Schirra

  Needs, Stories, Helping

  6 Copy quote

• No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

  Albrecht Durer

  Taken, Men, Perfect

  39 Copy quote

• Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

  George Thorogood

  Moving, Albums, Records

  7 Copy quote

• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Today, Students

  18 Copy quote

• Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

  Usher

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

  9 Copy quote

• Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

  Andrew Weil

  Different, Attention, Body

  8 Copy quote

• Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

  Grace Napolitano

  Data, Judging, Leader

  8 Copy quote

• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

  Timothy Leary

  Time, Soul, Gardening

  22 Copy quote

• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Patience, Pain

  50 Copy quote

• Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

  Theodor Adorno

  Real, One Day, Belief

  9 Copy quote

• My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Rebel, Purpose

  Interview with Rob Capriccioso, www.identitytheory.com. March 23, 2003.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Nature, Sarcasm

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

  Philip James Bailey

  Life, Gratitude, Heart

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.80

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Night, Play, Lunch

  9 Copy quote

• Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  Harrison Ford

  Tunnels, Light, Rejection

  "Life lessons 9 successful people learned from failing" by Erica Murphy, www.businessinsider.com. July 20, 2015.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Culture, Tycoons

  52 Copy quote

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

  Newt Gingrich

  Past, Economic, Crisis

  7 Copy quote