#figure

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#accomplished #administration #etc #figures #ford

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me. ↗

— Pam Bondi

#attorney general #because #become #figurehead #general

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#around #backing #bad #bad weather #cardboard

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#audience #best #better #every #figure

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood. ↗

— Cass Elliot

#apathetic #around #been #better #better world

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#climb #figure #give #go #how

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. ↗

— Don Marquis

#devil #figures #going #keep #male

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#door #equals #figure #films #fire

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ... ↗

— John Geddes

#eyes #past #present #price-of-love #scars