“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.” TryingFirstsBodyRunningMorningMinutesFiguresHappenings Author:Danny Pudi
“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.” FirstsGovernmentMightFiguresClothesHappeningsAffairDefinitionsObviousGamblingExposedEmperorAuthoritarian Government Author:Calvin Ayre
“I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.” LooksKindProblemMightFiguresComputerHappeningsPicksScreensDataSeatsUnusualVehicleComputer ScreenMalfunctionOverall Health Author:Laurel Clark
“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.” IfsHumansPersonsHandsFallSpaceStreetsEffectsEventsFiguresBuildingReadyWalkingHappeningsCamerasPhotographFallenThemeLoadedPhotojournalism Author:Leonard Nimoy
“Sometimes you got to a point where it wasn't happening and you had to figure out another way to do it, particularly in terms of making the jaguar do what you wanted. That was not CG, a real guy had to run really fast and not trip. There was a form of restraint on the creature that you can't see. so it was all very safe - but it is real.” WayRealSometimesRunningWantedFormGuyTermFiguresSafeCreaturesHappeningsRestraintAnother WayJaguars Author:Mel Gibson
“We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.” TryingTurnsFiguresHappeningsClock Author:Lester Bowie
“Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.” IfsGovernmentInterestPoorFiguresSixHappeningsBillsFolksSellingCorporateSalaryLobbyistsPharmaceutical Author:Hal Holbrook
“I definitely think there is a shift happening right now in terms of visibility, but there's still a choice you make as a public figure on what to do or how to present your sexuality.” ThinkingStillsChoicesTermFiguresRight NowHappeningsSexualityChoices You MakeVisibilityPublic Figures Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I've always been someone who likes to share and talk. When something happens to me I [don't] run away from it. I want to dive right into and explore it. Try to figure out why it's happening and try to figure out something good that's going to come out of it.” WantTryingHappensRunningShareFiguresHappeningsThings HappenLikesRunning Away Author:Tristan Prettyman
“It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.” JobsHappenedFiguresHappeningsHappening Again Author:Hillary Clinton
“Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.” WorldGivingTryingWellsUseLightOrderActorsGrowing UpIssuesGrowingFiguresBalanceHappeningsShiningI RealizedPlatformsGiving BackSpotlight Author:Serinda Swan
“There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the planet's not here for us to live on it, if we burn ourselves out from global warming and everything else, if we don't figure that out, if we don't figure out an alternative form of energy, I think we're in big, fat trouble.” IfsThinkingMayBigsAbleFormEnergyTroubleFiguresPlanetsComputerHappeningsThings HappenFatsAlternativesGlobal Warming Author:Lisa Rinna
“What is happening now is that producers are trying to figure out new ways to distribute that content.” WayTryingFiguresHappeningsProducersNew Ways Author:Maria Bartiromo
“The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.” YearsFiguresPolicyTrumpRepublicanMembersDegreesLowsHappeningsDirectSubstanceProportionConventionsUnprecedentedFamily Members Author:Mark Colvin
“Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanDifferentFiguresTheoryTrumpRight NowMajorsHappeningsToolsElectionSignificantSystems Thinking Author:Morgan Parker
“When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.” StoriesPastRealizingFiguresHappeningsYour PastInvisible Monsters Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.” KnowsTryingLooksSometimesFactsFiguresHappeningsBusyLike MePermanentDozenSurprisingHugBrushesLook At MeToo BusyHold MeIrreplaceableDazzleAstoundedHug Me Author:Samuel R. Delany