Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Zandi

On the national level, I think you'll see weakness in jobs figures for September, October and maybe even November.

Patrick Kavanagh

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

We are seeing forecasts of gold price rises moving towards four figures from hallowed institutions. This gold market is broadening significantly.

Nicholas Kristof

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Rob Reiner

Well, the big similarity is what public figures have to go through and their loss of privacy,

Donella Meadows

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

Cynthia Nixon

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

Douglas Coupland

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

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Geno Auriemma

We're 18-2 and it doesn't feel that way. I don't know why. Maybe because you know how many games are really hard to play in and you just keep thinking, 'This is really hard.' If someone figures out what we're not good at, it's good night, Irene.

James Van Der Beek

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

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.

Their products are quite unique. The figures were strong.

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

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.

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

John Gibbons

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

Hu Jintao

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

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.

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.

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

Richard Seymour

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Jeb Bush

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

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.