Facts Quotes

• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Theatre

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Aim
  • Number

• For falsification to constitute an offence there must be proof of "intent to deceive." This is a legally prescribed element of the offence and is negated when the report is submitted in conformity with orders from a higher authority in possession of the true facts.

  

  George Scratchley Brown
  • Authority
  • Proof
  • Offence

• My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Talent

• 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

• So what may be reversible for some might not be reversible for others. I believe that the value and the indispensable value of what we do is that we expose the facts.

  

  Rafael Grossi
  • Value
  • Indispensable
  • Expose

• 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

• A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Suffering
  • Facts
  • Disgrace

• Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Life
  • Science
  • Religion

• 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

• My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Riches
  • Rags

• I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Inspiration

• 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

• Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our ­artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.

  

  Neil Portnow
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Influence

• 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

• But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

  

  William James
  • Enough
  • Facts

• Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Lying
  • Facts
  • Absolutes

• I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Want
  • Musician
  • Streets

• Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Problem
  • Firsts
  • Facts

• If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Facts
  • Might
  • Seems

• The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • World
  • God
  • Selfishness

• 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

• The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

  

  Celia Green
  • Control
  • Ignore
  • Method

• When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Girl
  • Air
  • Faults

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