Fact Quotes
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I have to go away, but with regrets and with the firm intention to come back soon. I consider most sound I am an individual Gorky – and it is my individual feeling which counts for the most. Why? I do not know nor do I wish to know. I accept it as a fact, which does not need explanation.
Arshile Gorky
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He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
Albert Camus
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It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
Pablo Picasso
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I really like Wisconsin. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. I enjoy the fact that it's not L.A. or New York. And there's some sense of normalcy here - people having children in homes they can somewhat afford to live in.
Michael Feldman
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I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.
Antonio Esfandiari
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
Sigmund Freud
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The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
Israel Zangwill
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
Thomas A. Edison
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It is a well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.
Anatol Rapoport
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Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.
Alfredo Di Stefano
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I know for a fact my house is gone.
James F. Byrnes
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Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?
Ariel Pink
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In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.
Bill Gates
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
Michael Faraday
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I've just come to terms with the fact that there is a group of people out there who is interested in one side of things that I'm not really interested in.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
Winona Ryder
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It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.
Alfred Wegener
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For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.
Ali Shariati
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...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.
Bill Drummond Big in Japan
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.
Paul Krugman
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
Thomas Hobbes