#figures

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. ↗

— David Copperfield

#disappeared #figures #magic #modern #occult

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. ↗

— Robin Gibb

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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. ↗

— Pat Boone

#caring #democrats #figures #humane #liberal

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. ↗

— John Wilson

#actually #figures #historical #i #important

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general. ↗

— Eric Brown

#figures #general #genre #i #i think

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#figures #greatest #here #honors #humble

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand. ↗

— John Redwood

#credit #delivering #demand #ease #figures

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

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

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

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