Figures Quotes
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I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.
Ricky Williams
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Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
Arthur Mattuck
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.
Erin Gruwell
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The thing that can get confusing is you think, is this guy really a good player or does he just seem that way based on the way that they are playing. That takes longer to figure out, if they really are a good player or they just seem like one [bad].
Daniel Negreanu
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When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.
Morgan Saylor
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Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.
Gail Saltz
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Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.
Melissa Manchester
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
Sherman Alexie
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Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
Sean Lennon
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You have to figure out who am I? What do I want to do? What do I want to say?
Ryan Eggold
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I think in three or four years, there are going to be a whole lot more people who don’t think it’s necessary to figure out if you’re gay or straight. It’s like, just do your thing.
Kristen Stewart
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How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
Michelangelo
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!
Vladimir Putin
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We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.
Rich Eisen
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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
Michael Shannon
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My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
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We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.
Andrew Revkin
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To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
Williston Fish
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Sherman Alexie
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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
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One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.
Carl Zimmer