I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.
I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.
I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.
I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.
I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.
Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no longer be discerned which was coming and which going, which following and which leading, the old or the young man. Now it seemed to be...
The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who had a vested interest in smuggling slaves (and withholding data...
A grey-suited figure with badly-scuffed shoes was squatted over a woman’s body, obscuring her face and upper torso. A loose, white dress; torn, now mostly red. A pattern of rose petals, drenched in blood. One of her sandals was missing, scarlet str...
The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is not something written by men and frozen in time. It is not from a source outside myself. My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own so...
And forget not this: that outward semblance of authority is not a necessary symptom of its essence. There are men in high place who have no authority at all beyond what indolence confers because the indolence of many is the opportunity of one. Such m...
People told me that if I ignored you, if I pretended that you didn’t bother me, you’d eventually give up and move on to the next victim. So why didn’t that ever happen?
For in the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. Besides, the modern observations deprive all former writers of any authority, since if they had seen what we see, they w...
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.
You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book
