Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Noam Chomsky

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

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.

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.

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.

Nicholas Kristof

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

Overall, the headline figures are solid. January inventory figures are still on the path for solid growth in the first quarter.

I think they use statistics and figures that are misleading, and sometimes they are just plain erroneous.

Larry Wachtel

Suddenly these inflation figures have a psychological impact.

Helen McCrory

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

Today's manufacturing output figures were mediocre and disappointing overall,

Henry Ian Cusick

The viewing figures for 'Lost' were huge. I don't think the viewing figures for 'The 100' are up there with 'Lost'; hopefully, they will be.

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.

My bookkeeper is working on those figures now.

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.

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.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.