Figure Quotes - page 74

For anyone seeking meaning for his life a figure from Greek mythology comes to mind. It is that of Atlas, bearing with endless perseverance the weight of the heavens on his back. (Hyman G. Rickover)
Today this young woman -The Garbo as she is known - is the most glamorous figure in the whole world; there is no one with a more magnetic, romantic or exotic personality, there never has been a film star with so wide an appeal... Greta Garbo is Queen of Hollywood, her salary is fabulous, her word law. She has pointed features in a round face, her mouth is wide and knife-like. Her teeth are large and square and like evenly matched pearls; her eyes are pale, with lashes so long that when she lowers her lids they strike her cheeks; her complexion is of an unearthly whiteness and so delicate that she looks to have one layer of skin less than other people, and the suspicion of a frown is sooner perceptible. View quote
Greta Garbo
Fate suggests submission to the circumstances of life; destiny suggests active engagement. The former implies some all-powerful force or figure to whose will we must submit. The latter implies that each of us is a manifestation of one of the infinite aspects of creation, whose fullest expression depends in some small but necessary way on our day-to-day, moment-to-moment decisions. View quote
Fenton Johnson
I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest. View quote
Alan Cox
That's a 7.76mm round, you idiots, if you fire it into the air it comes to earth you know not where, like on some little kid's soft-skulled head, and that's the end of the kid. They're too stupid to even figure that much out. View quote
Gary Brecher
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable. View quote
William Ernest Henley
To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures. View quote
Hayao Miyazaki
With Eisenhower, we're dealing with something after the fact, a kind of Diocletian grace of God to rule over us, for a time, while we figure out who we are, as rulers. View quote
George W. S. Trow
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. View quote
Patti Smith
I don't know whether it's the governor's problem, or it's the president's problem, but somebody needs to get ... on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and figure this out right now. View quote
Ray Nagin
I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. (Vincent van Gogh)
What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight, but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate. View quote
Eminem
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. View quote
Henry Louis Gates
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. View quote
Jerry Spinelli
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. . . . View quote
Charles Dickens
A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it . . View quote
Charles Dickens
Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment and, Something had passed darkly and gone. View quote
Charles Dickens
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor. View quote
Brian Eno
[Hitler] lacked the ... figure of a [someone] truly trained in strategy. (Erich von Manstein)
You've got to balance the compassionate-use aspect with trying to figure out whether it works. View quote
Anthony Fauci
It is some improvement that for married couples – or male-female couples in general – the fertility indicator expressing the nation's demographic situation has risen from 1.2 to 1.44, and this is promising, but 1.44 is still very far from 2. In order to feel safe demographically, the average statistical ratio of children to Hungarian couples should be 2.1. In practice this is hard to implement, but this is the average figure we should have. Until we reach that point, Hungarians must be seen as an endangered species demographically; and the people – but the Government above all – should understand the imperative which is implicit in this. View quote
Viktor Orbán
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe