Quotes About Figure

He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history.

We are going to figure out your customers' story and place ourselves right smack in the middle of it.

Looking at the horizon again, I saw a lone figure coming toward me, but I wasn't frightened because I was sure it was my mother. As I got closer to the figure, I could see that it wasn't my mother, but still I wasn't frightened because I could see that it was a woman.

Twenty million bucks?" he repeated, as if dumbfounded.

How do you like your coffee?" "Black, but I'll fix it myself." "I don't mind fixing your coffee for you. It's part of the job." "I'll fix it myself." "All the secretaries do it." "If you ever touch my coffee, I'll see to it that you're sent to the mail room to lick stamps." "We have an automated licker. Do they lick stamps on Wall Street?" "It was a figure of speech.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Some wonder why things happen, some figure out why things happen, and some wonder why things always happen to them.

Herodotus relates that when Cambyses entered the temple of the Cabiri he was unable to restrain his mirth at seeing before him the figure of a man standing upright and, facing the man, the figure of a woman standing on her head. Had Cambyses been acquainted with the principles of divine astronomy, he would have realized that he was then in the presence of the key to universal equilibrium.

Will is a spectral, bedraggled figure, backlit by a great shaft of light, he would look like a ghost at the best of times, and this is the worst.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

Life has given everyone something unique, be smart enough to figure it out and use it properly.

Yeah, but Marcus, aren't you afraid you've now introduced them to the competition?" If you're thinking this, let's be clear about something: If someone wants to know who your competitors are, roughly, how long will it take them to figure it out? Seconds, if they're slow! The reality is this: Consumer ignorance is no longer a viable sales and marketing strategy.

He used to be a burglar, you know. It's the old story – lost his figure. As he says himself, it cramps your style when your only means of exit are the double doors in the front hall.

Then she saw him in outline, standing in the doorway, his powerful figure filling the open space.

By Christianity's own traditional logic, we are compelled to face and to meditate on a figure who entered into Rome's and Palestine's state-sanctioned theatrics of terror. We

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

His sonnet no. 152 uses the metaphor of sculpture for salvation: 'By what we take away, lady, we give to a rugged mountain stone/A figure that can live? And which grows greater when the stone grows less.' Here was the fascination with sculpture as an act of discovery within a piece of marble: by chipping away, the figure was slowly revealed.