#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

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#because #case #court #day #favorable

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed. ↗

— Beth Henley

#acting #acting class #all day #class #day

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#carries #clothes #combs #figure #hair

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american #chief #complicates #cultural #emerson

Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#even #figured #get #help #housing

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#cow #figure #i #just #make

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#care #dollars #even #figure #many