Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Ralph Fiennes

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Warren Spahn

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

Caleb Landry Jones

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

George Martin

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Steven Squyres

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping ...

The Bad Beginning

Airport Lot Attendant: There's a minimum charge of four dollars. Long-term parking charges by the day. Carl Showalter: I guess you think you're... you know, like an authority figure, with that stupid fuckin' uniform, huh buddy? King clip-on-tie there...

Fargo

Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it's much more important for another person to discover his or her own gifts and shortcomings--the patient person doesn't feel a need to "fix" other people, and so...

Tom Walsh

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who de...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

Authority has no partner.

French

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.

Kelly Cutrone

If you can't figure out what you were meant to do in this life, figure out what you were meant to do in this moment.

Shira Tamir

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Ang Lee

The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational.

Bong Joon-ho

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

Alison Jackson

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

You’re not beautiful,” he said. “Your profile said beautiful. You kind of overreached on that one.

Greta Smart Figures It Out

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

Edouard Manet

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

Julia Lipnitskaya

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

Johnny Weir