Fact Quotes

• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Clock
  • Workroom

• 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
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Actress

• People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Fact
  • Grasp

• Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Stories

• I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Hide

• I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Fun
  • Fact
  • Sight

• I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

  

  Eleanor Antin
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Adore

• You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Think
  • Fact
  • Overcome

• Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Bad
  • Lie
  • Contempt

• It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Scientific

• It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Money
  • Elites

• Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Story
  • Changed
  • Fiction

• Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Hearts
  • Fact
  • Ideology

• I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Fact

• In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Inspired
  • Written
  • Fact

• Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look at me. I'm six-four, three feet wide, have a really deep voice, and this face; I'm not precisely the romantic comedy stereotype, right?

  

  Brian Thompson
  • Voice
  • Heroes
  • Romantic comedy stereotype

• I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Trust
  • Fact
  • Assertion

• I have no problem with Jurgen Klopp. In fact we have a great relationship, he transferred me from Mainz.

  

  Loris Karius
  • Relationship
  • Problem
  • Transferred

• For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.

  

  Ali Shariati
  • Fact
  • Attack
  • Defend

• It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Art
  • Importance
  • Detection

• It is the big picture. That is right. That is a fact.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Picture
  • Right
  • Fact

• Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

  

  Sydney J. Harris
  • Born
  • Fact
  • Get Over

• If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

  

  Neville Goddard
  • True
  • Desire
  • Fact

• In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Important
  • Equality
  • Relationships

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