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Quotes About Figures

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
~ Alexander Pope
Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
~ Alexander Pope
He was a child, but his mind was already laden like a museum, where old and new specimens, facts and figures, lived together as evidence of his own personal history.
~ Alexis Wright
Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.
~ Michael Wolff
Staring at the plaster death figures in the museum window, she wondered what they had been thinking as they curled up to die in the ashes. Probably not: Well, we're Romans! We shouldn't complain!
~ Rick Riordan
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
~ Hannah More
Yo me enamoré de las figuras e incluso lancé una página web, Figarospeech.com, dedicada a ellas. Las figuras añaden lustre a un memorando o a un artículo, y en
~ Jay Heinrichs
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
~ Diplo
Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.
~ Fred Kaplan
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
~ Helen Fisher
My talent is numbers.
~ David Schweikert
Topology] is a purely qualitative subject where quantity is banned. In it two figures are always equivalent if it is possible to pass from one to the other by a continuous deformation, whose mathematical law can be of any sort whatsoever as long as continuity is respected.
~ Richard J. Trudeau
Said New York Post columnist William V. Shannon: "There is a growing tendency on the part of Americans to 'consume' political figures in much the same sense we consume entertainment personalities on television and in the movies.
~ Robert A. Caro
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with sense of humor.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
When one begins to appreciate the roles of unconscious suggestibility and self-fulfilling prophecies in human life, this song seems as funny as the latest radioactive fall-out figures.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Like what? Mary asked. Issued for what? For not burning carbon. Started writing on the whiteboard, feeling she was oriented enough to be ready for some figures. Not equations, which might just as well be Sanskrit to her, only some numbers.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Bombs Away!" he yelled, swooping low over StregaSchloss. He saw little figures on the ground fleeing from the large green projectile that was speeding their way. "And a direct hit, if I'm not mistaken," he observed to himself. With a tremendous slapping sound, Ffup's digestive overload landed on a human target. There was a scream, a ghastly choking sound, and then silence.
~ Debi Gliori
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
~ Maimonides
Although nothing has yet come out of the sea, from the ruined village figures have emerged and headed for the Tower.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like 'Billboard' provide the best independent measure of record appeal.
~ Robert Hilburn
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.
~ Michelle Yeoh
There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.
~ Udo Kier