Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

Sara Blakely

Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.

Jim McKay

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Maya Lin

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Minnie Driver

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

will.i.am

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

Gia Coppola

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

Pat Boone

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

Andres Serrano

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Bill Bruford

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.

Todd Stocker

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Virgil Thomson

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Brad Grey

Women, we are so strong! It took me so long to figure that out, but I realized just how strong a woman is.

Jessica White

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.

William Hurt

Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on...

1Q84

I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures - something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some ways, Henry, I'm a humbug - I mean, I'm not what you al...

Night and Day

Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself...

Your So-Called Life: A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out by Now

What do you think it is that makes a man" I started on the Definition. He cut me of after five words. "It is not!" he said. "A wax figure could have all that, and he'd still be a wax figure, wouldn't he?" ... "Well, then, what makes a man a man is so...

John Wyndham

But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that] certain limbs or elements of a figure are altered by borrowing from other species, for example transforming into a dolphin the hin...

Michelangelo Buonarroti

In so far as I listen with interest to a record, it’s usually to figure out how it was arrived at. The musical end product is where interest starts to flag. It’s a bit like jigsaw puzzles. Emptied out of the box, there’s a heap of pieces, all s...

Derek Bailey

Fran Kubelik: I never catch colds. C.C. Baxter: Really? I was reading some figures from the Sickness and Accident Claims Division. You know that the average New Yorker between the ages of twenty and fifty has two and a half colds a year? Fran Kubelik...

The Apartment