Figure Quotes

• Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

  

  Monica Raymund
  • Change
  • Sometimes
  • Experiment

• Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Feel
  • Sweet
  • Pleasant

• Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Paris
  • Figure
  • Prevent

• The universal hold used to be $1, ... Obviously that figure is rising along with gas prices.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Price
  • Gas
  • Rising

• Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

  

  Cody Lundin
  • Moral
  • Wrong
  • Give Up

• When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Life
  • Discipline
  • Keep

• I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Business
  • Job
  • Run

• My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Life
  • Man
  • Shorty

• It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

  

  Nicholas Kroll
  • Character
  • Point Of View
  • Figure

• The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure.

  

  Nicole Eggert
  • Kill
  • Figure
  • Bathing Suit

• Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

  

  Plutarch
  • Speech
  • Figure
  • Imagery

• When people come up to me and ask for a photo, ask for an autograph, I'm like 'Me? Are you sure?' I don't consider myself to be a public figure. I just happen to be.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • People
  • Consider
  • Photo

• I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Regret
  • I Think
  • Shameful

• I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wind
  • Nights
  • Don't Remember

• Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat. Now I have to worry about eating too much. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights. I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Worry
  • Figure
  • Exercises

• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  

  Dennis O'Neil
  • Story
  • Stories
  • Involved

• I couldn't buy my action figure at WalMart - I could have bought a shotgun and live ammo, though. But I don't plan on killing anyone yet.

  

  Al Snow
  • Buy
  • Figure

• Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • History
  • Macroeconomics
  • Friedrich Hayek

• I figure if I just stay true to myself and I am the Whitney that I've always been, people will look at me not as Whitney from the show, but as a human being.

  

  Whitney Port
  • People
  • Human
  • Show

• You figure you train all year for this, you're so nervous, so you might as well stand on the ice and enjoy it for more than five seconds. I realize everything I have been through and what I have done, appreciate the audience. It's nice to have just 30 seconds of relief.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Enjoy
  • Nervous
  • Figure

• There's no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We're all just trying to make a soup here, and they're trying to figure out the right ingredients for the soup.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Trying
  • Everybody
  • Ingredients

• You don't just wake up one day and decide who you are. I hope that people see that it's okay not to have labels nor label anyone else. Step back. We're all just trying to figure it out.

  

  Rita Volk
  • People
  • Trying
  • Anyone

• I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.

  

  Kathleen Madigan
  • Science
  • Problems
  • Psychology

• Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

  

  Michael Jeter
  • Time
  • Obvious
  • Nightmare

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