Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Johnny Carson

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

Luigi Pirandello

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

Eric Hoffer

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Octavia Butler

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

Noam Chomsky

Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.

Paul Hayes

I said, 'You're not going to have any help for the handicapped?' And he said, 'No, you had your chance.' They're putting blame all on people not wanting to go, but that isn't so,

Jack Sanders

I'll miss it very much, ... It's going to be very, very difficult when we leave. I've watched families grow up here. Children that were born here are now married and now have their own children. I'll miss it all.

Sopheeng Toun

I have three sisters and two brothers. My younger brother and I were born here, but the rest of my family is from Cambodia. My family went through hard times in Cambodia and came here in the early '80s.

Romy Schneider

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

David Harrington

I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to play.

Carlo Ciampi

I'm proud to be able to call myself a European citizen, born in Italy.

John Caudwell

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

Orlando Jones

I'm from that part of the country. I was born in Mobile. Ala. and grew up in South Carolina. I have family in Miss. Having gone through a number of hurricanes myself, none obviously as devastating as this one, one of the things you forget about is that at least as a parent, you're able to understand what has transpired in your life. But for a one- or two-year-old, it's a completely different level of devastation because everything that they know and have ever known is gone.

John Patrick Shanley

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

T Bone Burnett

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.