Figures Quotes

You've had a series of announcements over the last several weeks indicating a softness in retail. You've had other indicators, which I think really tells you you're up against really difficult comparisons [with year-ago figures]. Something's gone wrong with the apparel business in this country. - Michael Exstein

You've got good home sales figures showing some decent economic growth, and you've got crude oil prices up. You put those together, and that creates worries that the Fed is going to keep going on rates. - Stuart Freeman

You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s. - Vincent Van Gogh

You try to make sure no mistakes are made with Carpenter. But all of a sudden you get some rain problems and that will change, too. But right now, he figures to go every five days. If all of a sudden it rains and he's off that, then we have to make a big alteration. - Tony La Russa

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

You put three kids in double figures (points), your chance to win the game goes up. - Arno Kirchenwitz

You only have to look at Glenn's figures to say he's always a viable option. But obviously from his point of view there are a lot of family issues that need to be sorted out first. I guess we all wait and hope that it works itself out, and if it does then I'm sure you'll see Glenn McGrath striding in and adding to that tally. - John Buchanan

You may prove anything by figures. - Thomas Carlyle

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. - John Wilson

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on. - Sydney Schanberg