Quotes About Figure

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

A puzzle is something you figure out and you're done with—a crossword, sudoku, a Rubik's cube. A mystery is more like the face of someone you love. The more you know, the more there is to be known, and the more you want to know. ... a mystery has no bottom.

Now, aside from this self-confident ambition, what kind of man was Lincoln? There has undoubtedly been written about him more romantic and sentimental rubbish than about any other American figure, with the possible exception of Edgar Allan Poe;

He was quite a good-looking figure of a man.

Antigone emerges as a figure of pure desire precisely because, with her words and actions, she incites in others this tenacious question: What does she want? She states what she wants from the outset, yet there is no one in the play who is not baffled at one point or another by this question: OK, she wants to bury Polyneices, but what does she actually want?

At a university where self-regard flows like mother's milk through the hallways, Gerschenkron was a mythic figure. He

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

Ronda Rousey is a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, and anything that Ronda Rousey does is going to come with extreme scrutiny because she is such a pivotal figure in not only American sports but in global sports as well.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

To make 'Sound of My Voice,' we had to conceive the entire world and understand it holistically. If you want to show less in a movie, you've got to figure out more.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

The temptation to project upon the figure of Jesus our own notions of the ideal religious personality is nearly irresistible.

They portray not just figure anyone could imagine or desire, but the Christ of the Gospels as he seemed most closely to connect with believers in that time and place.

In a multifaceted, trend-setting career, he had truly become the most broadly talented and broadly influential figure in American popular music history. He had been much more than the Father of Bluegrass: He had been an uncle to country music, a first cousin to the folk revival, and a grandfather to rock 'n' roll.166