Figuring Quotes - page 2

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball. (Gio Gonzalez)
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. View quote
Jim Hodges
Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do. View quote
Joe Flanigan
Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other. View quote
Jacqueline Novogratz
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. View quote
Katherine Waterston
My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that. View quote
Lindsey Shaw
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. View quote
Maya Lin
The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive. View quote
Mike Johanns
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down. View quote
Robin Wasserman
Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create. View quote
Tracy Reese
I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that. (Vanessa Carlton)
My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night? View quote
Jim Butcher
It's all going to go sometime. You can't take it with you. I'm not saying you should wake up every day with sunshine streaming out of your head. If I could get one day a month, I would be very grateful. But I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. I'm just figuring certain things out. It's taken me a while, and some things I could probably do without knowing. View quote
Mark Wahlberg
Yeah. The guy's up against massive challenges, dealing with consequences, and figuring how to get what he wants and what he believes is right. He's living his worst nightmare, and he's doing everything he can. He's a damn good lawyer and he knows the system, but he's having to pull jokers out of his sleeve and win certain things on sheer willpower and gamble and meddle, you know? So that's what dramas allow, more so than a comedy. It's real-life consequences. The blows, the punches really hurt. The bullets really land. The people really bleed. People really cry. People really enjoy victory. People really feel pain and defeat. You can love harder. You can cry harder. You can be more angry, harder. That's what dramas allow. View quote
Matthew McConaughey
I'm still figuring out who I am. But at least I know what I want. View quote
Katherine Heigl
I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything. View quote
Ashlee Simpson
The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan) View quote
Nicholas Sparks
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. View quote
Jodi Picoult
We work through this together, remember? No shutting me out. No epic sulks." "I was figuring I could sulk for Idris in the next Olympics." "You and Alec could go for pair sulking. You'd get the gold. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person. View quote
George Clooney
I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everybody had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. (Octavia Butler)
The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue. View quote
Liz Phair
He ambles along the platform."Lots of times people say about systems analysis, why don't you guys do an experiment? What the hell are you sitting here figuring things? Why don't you go out and run an experiment? Well we'd love to run experiments,but there are two difficulties. One, in realistic experiments, people get shot down. That's not the major difficulty. We're willing to do it." The audience laughs. "We are. The real difficulty is we're talking weapons which aren't in existence yet." View quote
Herman Kahn
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. View quote
Loretta Lynn
One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone. View quote
Charlie Brooker