Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

After the Apocalypse

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

The House on Fortune Street

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

I Am America

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

I Still Believe

Silk stockings. With . Well, they were out. There were a lot of things he'd do for Sybil, but if garters figured anywhere in the relationship they weren't going to be on him.

Jingo

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

Skinwalker

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.

Night and Day

I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.

Looking for Alaska

The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.

The Lost World

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

If you strip away my flowery language, you’ll figure out I’m really talking about bees.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.

Take a Bow

Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the steps.

Talking to the Dead

Cheri grinned cockily at Pam and turned to Chelsea. “I figure my coffee won’t have time to get cold before this is over.

Paralyzed Dreams

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

Picture Perfect

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I like undressing women with my eyes, but I just can’t quite figure out how to unstrap their bras with my eyelids.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

Take Me There

That was Hunter,' said Quinn as his father's footsteps faded away. 'I figured. Since he said to call him Hunter and everything.

And Then Everything Unraveled