#figures

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#also #ask #bureau #dubious #face

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#come #day #deliverance #figures #illusory

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#direct #figures #give #i #i think

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#clicked #doing #facts #figures #found

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#certain #composition #figures #important #invention

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alive #am #america #character #city

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. ↗

— Don Marquis

#devil #figures #going #keep #male

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #could #criminal #distinctly #except

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#best #count #deeds #dial #feels