We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
I figured out 'The Sixth Sense' in the first 10 minutes. I still found the movie touching.
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.
I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers.
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.
