#figures

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#figures #landscape #little #perfect #relaxing

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you. ↗

— Brian Moore

#figures #freshness #inside #longer #normal

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#could #election #figures #gay #gay movement

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#acting #being #being honest #being real #better

I like to think of the figures I make as companions for a personal journey. I try to fill each one with healing energy that responds to the person who owns it, and conversely, I hope that the person who owns it will respond with a true heart connection. I feel that my work is a sign post to the half forgotten world that we all carry inside of us. When people look at my work, I want them to think "Oh, now I remember." If they do that then I know that they have been successful. ↗

— Wendy Froud

#figures #making-art #art

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#cars #figures #five #four #i

Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now, and because of his impermeable skin, which seems designed to resist rain as well as sun, people sneer that his father was an Irishman, though really he was a brewer and a blacksmith at Putney, a shearsman too, a man with a finger in every pie, a scrapper and a brawler, a drunk and a bully, a man often hauled before the justices for punching someone, for cheating someone. How the son of such a man has achieved his present eminence is a question all Europe asks. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#design

I will no longer let the fear of vicious comments or replies stop me from speaking what I believe to be right. I will also never give a message that everybody will agree with. I know that even my most faithful followers will never agree 100% with what I say. I also know that they know that and are fine with it. I am done letting the bullies win. They won’t anymore. Not here. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#blogs #bullies #bully #followers #negative

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#father

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. ↗

— Trevanian

#figures-of-speech #irony #speech