Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Coupland

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

If you are going to be true to your squad how can you justify figures like that.

Twyla Tharp

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

Isabel Allende

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

That is not something you ever want to do. Given what the figures are, it looks like something that should be resolvable.

The retail sales figures were really soft, much softer than expected.

Aaliyah

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Andy Kindler

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.

Brian Kilmeade

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.

Noam Chomsky

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

David Carr

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

There is no result, and the figures you see reported in the media are wrong.

When I saw these figures for the first time I wasn't sure we had it right. But the more I talk to people about the more I'm hearing what people are saying.

Gia Coppola

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

Hu Jintao

Together with farsighted Japanese political figures and personages from various walks of life, we normalized relations between our two countries,

Nick Offerman

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Isaiah Mustafa

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Richard Seymour

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Leila Janah

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.

Thanksgiving weekend spending figures suggest that predictions of another strong online holiday season are on track.

August's UK public finances figures are, for once, rather better than expected.

As our figures showed, our focus is on organic growth.

Robert Teeter

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

This is welcome news for the hunting industry and for conservationists. These figures show that our industry is out front in innovating new and better gear, and that hunters are willing to spend to further their enjoyment.

As a result, these newly released figures don't surprise us. Rather they remind us of the importance of the work that all of us are doing to improve the safety of women at this university.

They are flying blind. A lot of the figures are ancient.

Iyanla Vanzant

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't..

Jeb Bush

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

Up to 2004, we made 53,839 dumplings. This year, we made 2,815 so far, ... We've made (a total of) $44,154. We don't have figures for 2005 yet.

Randy Jackson

Figure out who you are.

Mignon McLaughlin

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.