Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

The Explicit Gospel

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Eat, Pray, Love

Perfect,” he said to himself. “Every time I figure you bastards out, you change again.

The Exodus Towers

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

The Forest for the Trees

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

A Girl's Guide to Chaos

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Half Broke Horses

When they figure out how to bottle up orgasms and sell them as a food additive, I'll be first in line.

Bound to Accept

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

The Best of Me

A blanket could be used to stop the bleeding. But what if that bleeding is figurative? In that case, I’d recommend a virtual Band-Aid. 

Brick

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

The Book of Strange New Things

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

Edward Furlong

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

Joe Frazier

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Peter Mullan

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

Pete Wentz

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

Daniel Smith

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Daniel Tammet

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Josie Maran

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Michelangelo

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

Scott Hamilton

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Ben Goldacre