#figure

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#found #i #out #people #told

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#asking #because #bone #books #calling

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#figure #hours #i #information #leaking

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#cloud #dissipate #doubt #figures #never

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#figure #glasses #looking #man #natural

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#figure #hockey #hockey players #key players #perceptions

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#figure #first #first thing #give #hacker

Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#few #figure #hall #head #hilary

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#answer #ask #because #becoming #ethics

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#anything #ever #figure #me #meant