Best Figure Quotes

#1. I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.

Amit Kalantri

#2. All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

Claudia Gray

#3. 'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.

Joe Bastianich

#4. The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

Michael Schur

#5. I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible."
"Did you kick their butts?"
He frowned. "The buttocks are among the least sensitive places to hit someone."
I laughed. "It's a figure of speech."
"To kick butts. Interesting.

Allison Van Diepen

#6. I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.

Philip Schultz

#7. Now, can I help you with something? I'm new, but I'll do my best to figure out how to get what you need."
...
"That's good to hear, Abby, since I need your breasts for a few minutes.

Cherise Sinclair

#8. She still wanted to slap something. Or throw something. The fish offered a tempting target but, before she could figure out who would fly across the room best, she heard the front door open and a man speaking to Tina.

Susan Mallery

#9. His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#10. It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.

Macklemore

#11. I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.

Dee Dee Ramone

#12. The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

Clayton Christensen

#13. The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Alice Morse Earle

#14. Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

Jay-Z

#15. Trying to figure out how to best manage his time between doing a task for imbeciles and avoiding imminent and painful death by protocol. I

Sam Sykes

#16. Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

Cheryl Ladd

#17. If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.

Joss Whedon

#18. The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.

Andie MacDowell

#19. The best thing I ever did was figure out how to hide a pistol in my brassiere. The second best thing I ever did was let Thomas figure out how to find it, but that's a story for another day. - Alice Healy

Seanan McGuire

#20. With our limited life spans, we mere mortals have to figure out what best to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

Joey W. Hill

#21. I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them.

Heidi Murkoff

#22. The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

Henry Markram

#23. So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.

Jeff Probst

#24. Fuck, he loved kissing. Fucking was obviously great, but kissing was really how you could figure out how to take someone down in the best way possible.

S.E. Jakes

#25. Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

Mos Def

#26. When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.

Kurt Fuller

#27. When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

Anthony Bourdain

#28. Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#29. Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

Stephen King

#30. We all have a finite amount of energy and time to give, and must figure out the best way to have an impact on the things that matter to us most - and it's okay that each one of us will do it differently.

Jan Fields

#31. Try your breath on the bones of everything that has them, remember the best songs and figure out how to write them down so when somebody's blowing on your bones, the songs keep on.

Catherynne M Valente

#32. I have to start living for me at some point and to hell with what's best for everyone else. They can figure that out on their own. I'm the only person in control of my destiny.

Georgia Cates

#33. Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

Brian Selznick

#34. Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

Sophia Amoruso

#35. Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

Kerry Washington

#36. Every word is another shovelful of dirt from the hole I've dug for myself. So I figure my best bet is to shut my mouth.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#37. Knowledge is power, Bane. My purpose is to give you that knowledge. It is up to you to figure out how best to use it.

Drew Karpyshyn

#38. Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

Tom Brady

#39. It would figure the best looking guy on this ward is gay ... and he has a sexier than sin boyfriend ... I swear to God I'm going to turn into a man. It's the only way.

Crystal Rose

#40. Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Nora Roberts

#41. When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver's seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.

Lorii Myers

#42. I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

Brooklyn Decker

#43. The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

Eric Maisel

#44. At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

George Carlin

#45. I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.

Joel Parkinson

#46. When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

Jeannette Walls

#47. Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

Michael Shannon

#48. So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

Steve Case

#49. Eight hours of sleep would be amazing. That would be the best. If I could just figure out that part of my life, it would be great.

Ben Schwartz

#50. In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#51. Game creators aren't necessarily all sitting around twirling their nefarious-looking mustaches while consciously trying to figure out how to best misrepresent women as part of some grand conspiracy. Most probably just haven't given much thought to the underlying messages their games are sending.

Anita Sarkeesian

#52. Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

Stephen Kinzer

#53. I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

David Duchovny

#54. When you first heard him talking about it, you'd figure he was batshit crazy, but really, he was just trying to fill up his days so he didn't have to think about what a fucking mess he had made of everything. It's the same for most of us; forgetting our lives might be the best we'll ever do.

Donald Ray Pollock

#55. I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

Alan Cox

#56. I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I feel like this time's gonna be different. I figure one of two things is gonna happen: either I'll get into shape, or I'll just resign myself to paying an $85 a month fat tax.

Christian Finnegan

#57. Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

Karen Russell

#58. There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

Sara Bareilles

#59. Everything in life is about timing. I've been able to have my experiences and learn from them and kind of figure out the thing that works for me and is best for me, and that's all I can really say.

Ciara

#60. The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less.

Philip Kotler

#61. Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

Lana Parrilla

#62. I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the routine that keeps your body the healthiest, and that's what I do - I don't change it for a swimsuit shoot. You have to figure out what works with your body the best.

Gigi Hadid

#63. Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.

Lauren Rowe

#64. When you choose high-quality delicious foods, your body will reward you with a trim figure and a longer, healthier life. After all, what you put in your body is the best recipe for staying sexy forever.

Suzanne Somers

#65. They make you settle for second best."
That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself.
"You never get what you want.

Connie Willis

#66. If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else? ... We're all consumers ... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

Stan Freberg

#67. Sooner or later, everybody dies. I figure it's best to spend your life doing what you enjoy. Every morning when I stand and look into the mirror, that time is still my own. I wonder how much longer that will last.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#68. Church and God ain't the same thing. From what I know, God's perfect. The Church makes mistakes ... God's about order, Church is about power, as best as I can figure, to be against one is not to be against the other.

Nathan Yocum

#69. Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#70. I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

Abraham Verghese

#71. We don't need to have the answers. We'll never have them. They'll come and go and change. And all we can do is figure out the best way to behave when life comes at us. Even if society says it isn't right. Right is so subjective, after all.

Na

#72. You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it.

Mikko Hypponen

#73. For a certain type of person, high school will always be brutal,' the head says. 'The best advice that I can give you is to figure out what comes next, and work towards that.

Stephanie Perkins

#74. I'm not perfect. And I don't have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it's okay if I still screw up.

Melissa Darnell

#75. We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#76. You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

Ben Horowitz

#77. Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

Ethan Hawke

#78. It's hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the world, but it's also just about impossible to figure out what it might be, or how best to say it, without getting the hell out of it again.

Tim Kreider

#79. Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.

Jeff Dunham

#80. I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.

Abby Wambach

#81. Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

Alan Shearer

#82. My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

A. J. Jacobs

#83. Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

Bonnie Raitt

#84. Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

Craig Groeschel

#85. As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.

Kirk Cameron

#86. The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jesse Ventura

#87. The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until you log into social media again. If you want real change, figure out what works best for your lifestyle.

J.R. Rim

#88. The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

Reed Hastings

#89. We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us.

Richard Carrier

#90. You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest it. You want people to come in and listen to all of it and understand the entire project. I think it's bad when everyone's like, "This is how you have to do it."

Jack Antonoff

#91. You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.

Tiger Woods

#92. All our friends were rich and they worried about having the most, spending the most, trying to figure out how it could make them the best. They trusted no one. You know that silly saying, he who dies with the most toys wins? I think for a lot of people it's actually true.

Robyn Carr

#93. It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure]

Adrian Lamo

#94. Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Arthur Rock

#95. Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage.

J.M. Barrie

#96. There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

Britt Daniel

#97. You always say the best leaders figure out how to turn a bad situation to their advantage. When life gives you gators, make Gatorade

Jeff Garvin

#98. The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

Anne Rice

#99. I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

Jody Gehrman

#100. It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

Henri Matisse