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“Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.”

Ifs Looks Fall Figures Position Standing

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.”

Matter Life Is Fall Figures Activity Commitment Falling In Love

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.”

Looks Light Faces Fall Figures Color Models Weight Tone Proportion Joints Texture Scrutinize

Author:Howard Pyle

“I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.”

Ifs Want Should Mean Feelings Happens Age Fall Courses Work Figures Health Offers Husband Sick Intention My Husband Retiring Bob Going Out Going To Work

Author:Dolly Parton

“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”

Real Self Fall Social Parent Term Figures Authority Expectations Expected Selfish Dirty Destructive Expecting Greedy Gross Elders Self Destructive Reversal Anti Social Authority Figures

Author:Jean Liedloff

“My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.”

Life Littles Life Is Fall Figures Crystals Snowflake Slow Motion Teardrop

Book:DAYBREAK

Source: DAYBREAK

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.”

Ifs Humans Persons Hands Fall Space Streets Effects Events Figures Building Ready Walking Happenings Cameras Photograph Fallen Theme Loaded Photojournalism

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.”

People Knows Way Trying Fall Realizing Wise Violence Figures Building Walking Victim Communicate Righteous Continuing Unnecessary Cattle Unnecessary Things

Author:RZA

“What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler”

Guy Fall Father Family Figures Crosses Editors Arthur Father Figure

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?”

Looks Children Stills Hands Fall Left Forget Talking Figures Development Aspect Doctors Tables Constant Best Things Meals Seats Grandmother Comment Steady Sassy Diapers Left Hand

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.”

People Ifs Should Trying Kind May Mean Ends Guy Fall Acting Careers Figures Flow Chips Manipulate Eclectic

Author:Clint Howard

“You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you?... As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.”

I Can Different States Law Political Fall Sex Sides Powerful Cases Doubt Figures Gay Gay Marriage Your Side

Author:John Roberts

“I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.”

People Thinking World Trying Stills Sometimes Fall Black White Figures Easier Ideological Black Or White

Author:John O. Brennan

“I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.”

Thinking Wells Fall Figures Skating Figure Skating Reflexes

Author:Jud Tylor

“I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.”

Trying Seems Fall Answers Worry Figures Newspapers Not Sure Circulation Fads

Author:Ben Bradlee

“So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.”

People Knows I Can Shows Seems Hate Fall Causes Situation Plans Figures Pilots

Author:J.H. Wyman

“Certain roles, I just won't invest in. I'll go in and audition, but I might not spend five hours trying to figure out what the character is really about or go so deep into it. I might just learn the lines and go in and try my best because I know it's not safe for me to love the character or to fall in love with the idea of the role.”

Knows Trying Ideas Character Might Certain Fall Hours Lines Roles Five Figures Safe Falling In Love Auditions

Author:Madeline Zima

“I think one of the beauties so far of the so-called Spirit of Seattle is there aren't any leaders, pop stars, or guru figures that everyone else is falling in line with and following. No [Nelson] Mandela, Havel, or Subcomandante Ski Mask riding in on a white horse and everybody else just wanting to follow them to the promised land. We're stitching it together and doing it ourselves.”

Thinking Together Spirit Fall Stars Lines White Leader Land Figures Horse Following Pops Mask Riding Guru Seattle Skis Nelson Pop Stars Promised Land White Horse

Author:Jello Biafra

“I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.”

“The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.”

Fall Lost Perfect Figures Elements Cameras Naked Landscape Exposed Lenses Gardener Eden

Author:Justine Kurland

“I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.”

Way May Long Fall Born Figures Long Time Long Way Pennsylvania Beavers

Author:Papa John Creach

“I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain. We were so psychotic for each other that I didn't care about anything else. It was too much. Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.”

Want Important Care School Fall Brain Too Much Figures High School Falling In Love Focused What You Want Over You Stay Focused Psychotic

Author:Daren Kagasoff

“I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.”

Want Writing Years Stills I Can Stories Fall House Novel Figures New York Years Ago Falling Apart Upstate New York

Author:Craig Finn