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“Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.”

Lying Women Figures Late Perfection Weak Beloved Adolescence Absent Weak Points

Author:Andre Maurois

“Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams.”

Should Lasts Lying Week Figures News Notes Despite Scandal Rating Brian Nbc Nbc News

Author:Conan O'Brien

“When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.”

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.”

Lying Figures Speech Packs Imagery

Author:Plutarch

“Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.”

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.”

Ifs Trying God Lying Dog Figures Bed Jokes Agnostic Dyslexic Old Jokes

Book:Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

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Author:Marjorie Benton Cooke

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)