Figured

Famous quotes containing the word figured:

“The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The figured wheel rolls through shopping malls and prisons,
Over farms, small and immense, and the rotten little downtowns.”
—Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)

“Listen, I knew ya since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kinda crook. I never figured ya for a louse.”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)