Facts Quotes

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats cant grasp this simple fact.

In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's soul is eternal.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .

I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

Feelings change facts.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

Truth is independent of facts always.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.