Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Goldwyn

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

Salma Hayek

There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.

Ward Churchill

Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

W. S. Gilbert

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

W. H. Auden

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

Wayne Knight

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

Robert Peel

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Saul Williams

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

Saul Bellow

Facts always are sensational.

Sandra Bullock

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Yukio Mishima

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

Zhuangzi

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

Zhuangzi

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

Rick Warren

The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.

Rick Warren

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

Veronica Roth

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

Robert Graves

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Sam Altman

You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.

Rufus Wainwright

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

Robert Jordan

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

Wendell Berry

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

Yann Martel

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

Adam Leipzig

If you're going to state facts in a National Geographic film, ... they had better be right.

I just think there was a whole confluence of facts that lead to our momentum building.

George H. W. Bush

I'll wait to see all the facts before I reach any conclusions about blame, but right now, we mourn for the loss of the life, two lives.

I have to live with the facts as they are, rather than as I wish they would be or think they might be in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

I mean, is it journalism? Is it just opinion? Are we putting facts out there? Are we trying to uncover stories? And so, the issue comes up, what is the liability?

Ruben Aguilar

The federal government has done what was in its power to investigate and find the facts, identify those responsible and open the way for the application of justice.