Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Haddon

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

Paul Auster

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

Pat Boone

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

Oscar Wilde

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Naomi Campbell

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Mithun Chakraborty

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

Mitt Romney

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

Newt Gingrich

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

Newt Gingrich

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

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.

Giacomo Casanova

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

Jim DeMint

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

Jenny Lawson

I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.

Gilbert Ryle

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

George H. W. Bush

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

Jim Calhoun

Get some facts and come back and see me!

H. G. Wells

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Julian Barbour

If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.

Kevin Powers

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

Margaret Atwood

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Margaret Beckett

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch government and report the facts.

Jay Mohr

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

Jay McInerney

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Janet Flanner

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

Janet Evanovich

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

Etgar Keret

The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

Ernst Mach

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

Ernst Mach

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Tom Daschle

a full investigation of the facts surrounding this situation be undertaken, the sooner the better.