Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Sarah Palin

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Samuel McChord Crothers

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

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.

Rudy Rucker

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

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.

Vash Young

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

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.

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.

Robert Shapiro

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

Robert Rankin

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Robert Plant

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

Roger Goodell

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

Sarah McLachlan

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

William Hazlitt

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Wendell Berry

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

Walter Pater

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Yann Martel

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

Richard Ford

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Tupac Shakur

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

Ron Suskind

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

Ron Fournier

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

Rupert Holmes

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

Todd Duncan

Fact: If you don’t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

Steve Case

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

Stephen Fry

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

Ruby Wax

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously