Top 1200 Figure Skating Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I yelled. He'd been staring at Lissa's retreating figure but glanced up at the sound of his name. One of my escorts shushed me and took my arm. "Be quiet." I ignored her. "Go after her," I called to Christian. "Hurry." He just sat there, and I suppressed a groan. "Go, you idiot!" My guardians snapped at me to be quiet again, but something inside of Christian woke up. Springing up from his lounging position, he tore off in the direction Lissa had traveled.

I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

I think that everyone is here for a reason and a purpose, and it's your job to figure out what that is.

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

For me, I just try to figure out ways I can affect winning.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

I just need to figure out how things work.

Figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

It's so hard to figure out how to end a TV show.

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

I like that I have a boyish figure, because I love wearing men's suits.

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.

The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.

I wanted BoJack to be more of a cautionary figure than someone that you aspire to be.

Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Roger Casement is an intriguing figure - humanitarian, Irish revolutionary, gay - and much had and would be written about him, there was something about his character as a conflicted man, an Irish Protestant who spent much of his time representing England in different African nations, a gay man who, true to the times, kept his sexual orientation to himself, that kept playing in my head. I read on and around him, but a historical figure is not a story - it's not even a character - so my story, the one that I would develop into Valiant Gentlemen, had yet to reveal itself.

The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

I'm still trying to figure out how to have an adult relationship with my parents.

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

I don't want to blame it on not having a father figure in my life, but that has a lot to do with it too.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.

Nothing comes easy. I know that people joke all the time and try to figure out, you know, what it is that I do, but I work really hard. I get up every day at 5 a.m. and start my day. I think as long as you work really hard and figure out what you want to do and stay motivated and have a plan and stay committed - just don't be lazy. That's my best advice. It's the most simple advice, but it really worked for me. I think that for some reason, I see people that think things will come easy and it doesn't really come easy.

Even if the game isn't fair, I'm going to figure out a way to win.

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Most young kids can't figure out how to shoot.

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.