Top 100 Quotes About Figured
#1. Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.
Satya Nadella
#2. You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.
David James Duncan
#3. A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
Tab Hunter
#4. I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.
Dascha Polanco
#5. I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.
Neil Gaiman
#6. I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
Carol Leifer
#7. I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
Jon Skovron
#8. You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
Jodi Picoult
#9. Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
S.E. Hinton
#10. Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.
Eric Ladin
#11. Everybody struggles with this stuff, you know. With social discomfort and grief and fitting in. People with syndromes, people with disorders, people with diagnoses, and without. People who would be classified as neurotypical. Idiots and geniuses, maids and doctors. Nobody's got it all figured out.
Jael McHenry
#12. If you're not getting through to others, the reason may not be because they "are idiots." The problem may be that you haven't figured out a simple and interesting way to communicate your messages.
Bruce Kasanoff
#13. I figured I wasn't supposed to be capable of that kind of thinking, and I felt like an alien. I feel that a lot, actually, in a lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don't.
Marina Keegan
#14. When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.
Alexandra Robbins
#15. Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.
Louis L'Amour
#16. A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.
Mitch Daniels
#17. If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
Oscar Isaac
#18. Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!
Eliot Ness
#19. No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave.
Jayde Scott
#20. Hallelujah! It's about time you two idiots figured out that you were made for each other.
Jay Crownover
#21. When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. But earlier this week on a wooded path,
I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir
were the true geniuses,
the ones who had figured out how to fly,
how to be both beautiful and brutal,
and how to mate for life.
Billy Collins
#23. I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn't write my name on it, but I'm sure he figured out it was me.
Jennifer Hudson
#24. It's funny that these people think I'm so powerful. I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care. There are people who want to kill me and I'm always like, 'Well, get in line, darling.
Conchita Wurst
#25. You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.
Sam Altman
#26. I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.
Snoop Dogg
#27. I thought about it and decided that I wasn't going to attempt to answer life's greater mysteries
especially given all I was dealing with presently
and so I figured it best to stick with the plan.
Matthew Quick
#28. Marsh recounts an anecdote about a psychopath who was being tested with a series of pictures and who failed over and over again to recognize fearful expressions, until finally she figured it out: "That's the look people get right before I stab them.
Paul Bloom
#29. I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
Gary Cooper
#30. Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out.
I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq.
We've been following time as it goes forward.
What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.
Jon Stewart
#31. Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
Sarah Dessen
#32. An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.
Christopher Bram
#33. I hoped he figured out what my body language said: You're less than nothing to me.
Kate Kae Myers
#34. The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'
Simon Sinek
#35. While you're figuring out what to do, we've tried two different things and have figured out the right one.
Josh James
#36. I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.
Larry McMurtry
#37. POPPY (standing up to Paul): In time, Mom will realize I'm already the woman I'll always be. I'm not her at eighteen, feeling my way through the world. I've figured out what I want and who I am. Mostly, I know exactly what I need to be happy, and they're all in the house with me now.
Bijou Hunter
#38. The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
Lenny Bruce
#39. Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
Susan Orlean
#40. In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn't need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you're uninsured, it can bankrupt you.
Denis McDonough
#41. Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention,
Eileen Wilks
#42. It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
Ann Patchett
#43. One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.
Katherine Paterson
#44. She glanced at Terrible, a quick little eye-dart before looking down again; Rick figured she didn't want him to overhear. "He's my family," she said finally. Quietly. "He's everything." "Oh,
Stacia Kane
#45. I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.
S.A. Tawks
#46. With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies for about seven years. It was my first huge production. I figured if I did at least a yeoman-like job, it would be greeted as a complete revival of the series.
Martin Campbell
#47. After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.
Bob Hope
#48. Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something. The Arabs are the only ones who've figured this out. They have the sense to call non-Arabic versions of the Criterion interpretations, not translations.
G. Willow Wilson
#49. I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger 'cause I figured he can go back in the future. Put that in the act.
Pablo Francisco
#50. What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.
Chris Paine
#51. Silk stockings. With garters. Well, they were out. There were a lot of things he'd do for Sybil, but if garters figured anywhere in the relationship they weren't going to be on him.
Terry Pratchett
#52. I guess we don't always know what other people are thinking, even if they seem to have everything figured out.
Zoe Sugg
#53. A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.
David Baldacci
#54. At first i thought you were one of the human students, when you'd told me about your parents i thought they'd killed your real parents and adopted you. I figured you didn't know what you really were
Claudia Gray
#55. I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.
Kirsten Storms
#56. I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
Hal Linden
#57. Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.
Ben Roethlisberger
#58. I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.
Ginger Rogers
#59. Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
Philip Massinger
#60. I figured he was adhering to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't make fun of the person paying the mortgage.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#61. Peter: Got that gun?
Tobias: No, I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.
Peter: Oh, shut up!
Veronica Roth
#62. I'm going to check on you in the night," he said. "At random intervals of my choosing."
"I figured.
Sara Zarr
#63. Should be a pleasant flight, Mr. and soon-to-be Mrs. Ryel," the pilot said. Jared's grin stretched the width of his face. "I might have paid him extra to say that." "I figured as much," I teased.
Jamie McGuire
#64. But literacy didn't make you smart, just like, as Twill had already figured out, money didn't make you rich.
Walter Mosley
#65. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.
Rachel Held Evans
#66. It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
Jenn Suhr
#67. For so long, I hadn't really heard Margo - I'd seen her screaming and thought her laughing - that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her.
John Green
#68. When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.
Kenneth Choi
#69.
"You might have figured out she has a thing for guys in uniform."
"A perfect match." He grinned. "Garcia has a thing for girls with a thing.
Victoria Vane
#70. So you just wanted to congratulate me?" I smirk. "Well, thanks." -"Someone should," he says. "And I figured your friends might not be so congratulatory, since their ranks aren't as high...
Veronica Roth
#71. I couldn't stop thinking about what he'd said. How had a teenage guy figured out what I worked hard to ignore? All in the span of a couple of conversations?
Nicole Williams
#72. After all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive and Jonah could come up unharmed from the belly of a whale, then surely ole T.j. could get out of going to prison.
Mildred D. Taylor
#73. You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
Garry Marshall
#74. As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things.
Brandon Sanderson
#75. We rally about one side not doing what the other side should be, whereas the other side feels the same way.. When both have not figured out that one has to be different than the other for the other to be attracted.
Apply this in every way along your day.. Either way your right
Jonathan Bailey
#76. 'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel.
Simon Toyne
#77. I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.
Darynda Jones
#78. Sometimes life was messy and got in the way. But wasn't that part of the beauty of falling in love and being in a relationship? You figured things out together as you grew, and faced the challenges that life enjoyed the hell out of throwing at you.
J. Sterling
#79. Cylindrical peg into the round hole. It's not that hard. Actually, yes it was that hard, which is why I didn't want it deflating before he figured out what to do with it.
Zathyn Priest
#80. The heavenly motions ... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.
Johannes Kepler
#82. Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
Iain De Caestecker
#83. Michael figured correctly that I hadn't finished reading the six-hundred-page book in the two weeks since he had recommended it to me
Zack Love
#84. I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.
Bart Yates
#85. Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a con brio, which I figured meant she had to play either with brightness, with coldness, or with cheese.
Richard Bach
#86. I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be disciplined. I figured what people needed was a kick in the butt, and if I failed at godliness it was because those around me weren't trying hard enough.
Donald Miller
#87. I'd always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises.
Morgan Matson
#88. I finally figured out that it doesn't matter what other people want to read. It matters what you want to write. You write the story that you would want to read, and then fans will come. If you love what you write, others will too.
Jami Montgomery
#89. One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They have not really figured out what kind of stimulation and where feels best for them, so they are not able to guide a partner in this.
Gail Saltz
#90. I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
Bill Scott
#91. Rick Grimes: Where'd you find everyone?
Daryl Dixon: Well, those guys' tail lights zigzagging all over the road - figured he had to be Asian, driving like that.
Glenn: [chuckles] Good one.
The Walking Dead
#92. I came because as soon as we figured out where you might be, nothing would've kept me from finding you. Nothing.
Lara Adrian
#93. It's been a while since I've had sex. I figured it was just like riding a bike, the only difference is that after a while, the bike doesn't turn you over and ride you.
Beatrice Stark Girl Detective
#94. Leave it to the Indians to have meditated upon and figured out the laws of the Universe. Leave it to the Americans to either change those laws, have us escape into another Universe with different laws, or create that other Universe if it doesn't exist already !
Gaurav Dagaonkar
#95. And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
Erykah Badu
#96. If it was that easy, the American military would have figured it out years ago.
Christopher Rankin
#97. By the way, you acted like an asshole today. Like you did when I first met you. And I figured you had money. Well, not for sure, but I mean ... " "I'm an asshole?" "Yeah. But in a good way. At least now." Marcus shook his head. "You sure know how to compliment a guy.
S.E. Jakes
#98. But brokenhearted was brokenhearted. Never embraced. Never treasured. Never easy. Heath figured every human being had a certain amount of God-ordained grace to endure their own unique brand of loss and pain.
Rachel Hauck
#99. Well, you can't break an unbreakable vow," said Ron.
"I figured that out myself, funnily enough.
J.K. Rowling
#100. I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I could find those alien creatures right on Earth. And what I do is I study insects.
Michael Dickinson
