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

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
Alan Alda

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
Chuck Close

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.
Nolan Ryan

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
Ben Stiller

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris

It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.
Andre Agassi

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
Maria Callas

I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.
Roseanne Barr

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.
Roseanne Barr

I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.
Sid Vicious

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav Havel

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.
Robert Downey, Jr.

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.
Shaquille O'Neal