A Quote by Marjorie Benton Cooke

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

Marjorie Benton Cooke

Quote Topics

Everybody Face Figures Knows Lie Mathematician Nothing Right Unreliable Your Your Face

Quote Author

Marjorie Benton Cooke
American - Novelist
1876 - 1920

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

I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical.

Johannes Kepler

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

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

Joseph Bruce

I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.

Johnny Gargano

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

Jules Verne

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

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

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

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

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

Pete Hamill

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

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.