Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Tippett

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Joely Fisher

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

It's hard to imagine that individual month-to-month figures are going to have much bearing.

John Gibbons

Cabrera, when he's throwing strikes, he's as tough as anybody. When he figures it out, watch out.

Isaac Newton

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Jack LaLanne

Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.

Irwin Shaw

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Their products are quite unique. The figures were strong.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

Quarterly figures are very volatile and susceptible to revision, particularly at the turn of the year.

The terrorists want to get money by kidnapping influential figures and this could include businessmen and politicians.

It's a resource question. We're trying to pass legislation, and we need to know what the figures are.

It was good information. I'm hoping we can use our figures to make us manage ours better and keep it. That's my personal opinion.

These are very encouraging figures but we must not be complacent. We must make sure that future agricultural and aquaculture practices protect rather than impact on wild salmon stocks, and we need to fund further research into predation and general marine survival.

Sue Monk Kidd

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

Heath Ledger

There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself.

Mary Schmich

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

Roald Dahl

All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, children's literature professor at Cardiff University.

The market's slight disappointment with the figures may reflect a perception of lower profit leverage to the higher sales growth together with another indifferent quarter in the medical division.

The market's doing pretty well. We've had some good figures out of the U.S. and futures were very strong at yesterday's close.

Henri Matisse

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model...

The (European) markets on Wednesday are buoyed by some fantastically good figures from SAP, which have come on the back of things improving in New York and then that was followed through this morning by some very good (technology) performances in Tokyo.

Brit Hume

These are not small figures in this administration.

These figures strongly suggest that the labor market recovery train is still not even at the train station as of yet.

Alexis Herman

These figures show that our prosperity is propelling more and more Americans into the mainstream,

John Wilson

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

The GDP figures were a downer, and persistent foreign selling is also making people wary of taking long positions.

The January numbers looked overly weak, in light of recent developments in the housing market so some recovery in these figures was to be expected.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

Pearl Bailey

No one can figure out your worth but you.

The figures we've posted speak for themselves so I'm not going to say anything about Belinda, no,

The figures were fine, but didn't sparkle like Exxon's.

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.