“I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.” LooksMeanPersonsSaidKidsMy OwnFiguresMirrorsSticksDumbJustifyMean Person Author:Uma Thurman
“I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.” IfsWorldWayTryingMeanDoeAbleMovingAsksConsciousnessFiguresCrisisScalesMoving ForwardConclusionEnlightenedExistentialScopeRight QuestionsExistential CrisisKnowledge Of The World Author:Elon Musk
“Inspiration means that you don't have to figure things out, or think about them. Ideas and answers pop into your head and the energy carries you forward, if you allow it. Planning. . . is a way of ritually killing inspiration, which transcends the need for planning.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsMeanIdeasInspirationEnergyAnswersFiguresKillingPopsPlanningCarrie Author:Chuck Spezzano
“I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.” ThinkingMeanShowsBlackWhiteFiguresHealthyImpressionInstanceChiefsInterpretationBlack And WhiteEarningAccountingAccountants Author:Steve Odland
“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.” IfsThinkingMenMeanWholeWould BeSocialRealizingLosesLossMoralImpossibleTeachingFiguresJudgingStandardsRaisesStrivePresidentialResolutionCivicsSocial LifeIntertwinedThinking Man Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“As with Randall Terry and other anti-abortion leaders, women simply did not figure into [Roeder's] equations. If all the abortion providers were dead, the problem would be solved, and he'd never have to think about those who sought to end their pregnancies through illegal or dangerous means.” IfsThinkingMeanEndsProblemWould BeLeaderDangerousFiguresAbortionIllegalPregnancyEquationsProvidersAnti Abortion Author:Stephen Singular
“Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.” FirstsHumansMeanValuesChallengesTechnologyFiguresHuman Values Author:Sherry Turkle
“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.” IfsWantShouldMeanFeelingsHappensAgeFallCoursesWorkFiguresHealthOffersHusbandSickIntentionMy HusbandRetiringBobGoing OutGoing To Work Author:Dolly Parton
“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsMeanSaidTwoUseLawThreeFatherTakenDoubtFiguresFieldsHabitAbuseObviousObservationSpeakersQuotationsToilRemarksWhen In DoubtWildeBernard ShawUse And Abuse Author:Nigel Rees
“If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.” IfsMenMayMeanLightSeemsFiguresWallFameShadowSightGiantsCanvasSublimeStalkingMouldSilhouettes Author:John Townsend Trowbridge
“Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.” IfsThinkingMenMeanAbleNamesHeavenWaitingWhiteFiguresTerribleOrdinaryAll ThingsLongingEndlessGatesDoomedOrdinary Man Book:Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories Source: Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories
“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.” FirstsMeanHouseFiguresCostModelsDrawsRateArchitecturePlotSurveys Author:William Shakespeare