A Quote by Jules Verne

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

Jules Verne

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Answered Do Whatever You Want Figures Make Oh Want Whatever

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Jules Verne
French - Novelist
February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

Gregory Crewdson

I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures.

Joseph Bruce

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

Marjorie Benton Cooke

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

Pablo Picasso

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.

Udo Kier

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Mark Twain

My secret pleasure is painting these little mini figures that you send into battle - they're called Warhammer figures. It's the nerdiest thing in the world, but it's a lot of fun. It's relaxing; that's the main reason I do it.

Cole Sprouse

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

Walter Martin

A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.

Susan Cheever

In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.

Yasunari Kawabata

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

W. Edwards Deming

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Ralph Fiennes

Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.