Figure Quotes - page 8

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is. (John Eldredge)
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office. View quote
John Cusack
I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing. View quote
Josh Hartnett
The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not. View quote
Kelly Cutrone
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. View quote
Quincy Jones
You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here! View quote
Lev Grossman
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to. View quote
Lauren Myracle
Well, I can't figure out God. (Oral Roberts)
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. View quote
James Rollins
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
It's more that I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be... to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss. View quote
Ann Brashares
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. View quote
Agnes de Mille
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. View quote
T.D. Jakes
Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do. View quote
Dennis Crowley
Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure... but now you've just gone nuts! View quote
Mike Mignola
I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful. View quote
Marie Windsor
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty. (Sarah Paulson)
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free. View quote
Edward G. Robinson
I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone. View quote
Amy Sedaris
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. View quote
Trevanian
Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown. View quote
Flannery O’Connor