#figure

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#child #children #consider #deceiving #deception

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#among #conviction #directors #figure #great

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it. ↗

— Claudette Colbert

#fall #figure #into #jump #me

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic. ↗

— Samantha Fox

#because #body #different #different kind #everybody

But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#avoided #because #depression #down #economists

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#different #different things #figure #figure skating #glide

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

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

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