#figure

I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.' ↗

— Heath Ledger

#figured #film #heath #hire #i

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #book #exposed #figure #find

We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact. ↗

— Theresa May

#across #coming #cutting #drop #economic

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it. ↗

— John Mayer

#exactly #figured #how #i #i can

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#fire #old-timer #remember #remember when #setting

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure. ↗

— Zell Miller

#been #every #figure #freedom #great

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#job #kind #lonely #major #man

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created. ↗

— Barack Obama

#also #been #being #bleeding #created

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#allowing #even #felt #figure #god