Quotes About Figure

He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.

Rusbridger's curious success, especially for a temperamentally remote figure, has been to give a reasonable face to the Guardian's quite quixotic mission.

I don't have the figure for fashion and I've never heard anyone say I was a fashion icon.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

she admired the lofty set of his black-robed figure, the majestic shoulders, the great impatient hands, and his gloomy black eyes.

Her five-feet seven-inch frame

A fiery horse, with a speed of light—a cloud of dust, a hearty laugh, The Lone Ranger is perhaps the most attractive figure ever to come out of the West.

Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

He couldn't carve a magic key into Nastaran's secret garden. He couldn't open any golden walnut that might harbor such a key. But perhaps Dirk could make a figure that could open some ordinary walnut. It was the possibility of hope that mattered, he knew.

The witch turned this way and that, I think I've kept my figure, don't you? she asked Mewster. Who else would want it? Don't be snarky. She batted her eyelashes at her reflection. I do believe I have my mother's eyes. Maybe it's time you give them back. Your mother's bee dead since the reign of Oleg the Incontinent.

Boredom can be important. That's when you have to figure out what you want to do.

As her figure coarsened, her soul became ever more romantic, and when her corpulence riveted her to her chair, her imagination continued to wander through tender adventures, of which she was the heroine.

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates. But he could not find it out.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

I know some bands that don't like touring and are able to make a living producing other bands. There are a lot of ways of carving a living out, but it's become tougher and tougher to figure out what that means.

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!

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.

The point is that I loved math with a passion. I loved the order, the clarity of it, the absolute in it. And I think that my students felt that, for me, something more than mere math was involved, an attitude toward life itself. I liked a straight answer to a straight question, in just the way that I felt the beauty of a perfect equation or, even more, a geometric figure.

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort required because I'm constantly packing. My off-duty style is always influenced by my mood.