#figure

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#arousing #boy #chamber #day #dead

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#back #different #figure #getting #go

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anyway #become #been #beginning #figured

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#change #exact #exactly #figure #give

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#did #ever #fertile #figure #how

You've got to experiment to figure out what works. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#figure #got #out #works #you

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling. ↗

— Allen West

#absolutely #administration #afghanistan #almost #appalling

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#brains #face #figure #grace #hide

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#am #figure #get #going #i

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#bigger #faster #figure #had #i