Facts Quotes

• There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Born
  • Attributes
  • Sections

• You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Name
  • Bachelor
  • Solicitor

• I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Words

• The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Humans
  • Littles
  • Land

• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Way
  • Philosophy

• The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Past
  • Racism
  • Tragic

• Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Sides

• We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • War
  • Needs
  • Preparation

• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Names
  • Lasts

• In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Fourth

• Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same

  

  Oliver B. Greene
  • Suffering
  • Facts
  • Beloved

• I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Matter
  • Winter
  • Might

• They grieve until they find the individual alive, and if they don't, and the computer matches them up, then the grieving process moves on. It's reality now, and hope has diminished into facts

  

  John Callahan
  • Hope
  • Process
  • Alive

• While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • May
  • Moral
  • Facts

• Facts cling to photographs like dust.

  

  Andy Grundberg
  • Facts
  • Photograph
  • Dust

• Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

  

  William Golding
  • Stories
  • Stills
  • Paper

• History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • History
  • Mistake
  • Identity

• We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Leader
  • Faces
  • Insane

• Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Credit

• Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Giving
  • Sleep

• Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Solitude
  • Groups
  • Careful

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

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Science
  • Facts
  • Expenditure

• I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.

  

  Willie Smits
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Stress

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