Facts Quotes
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What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.
Catherine Brady
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I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.
David Salle
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The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.
Seth Godin
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Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
Sarah Churchwell
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I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
Sarah Dessen
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
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Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
Thomas Kuhn
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The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.
Isaac Marion
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We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.
William Boyd
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
William James
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This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.
Terence McKenna
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And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.
Vito Fossella
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
Dan Graham
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
Virginia Woolf
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One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.
Stuart Wilde
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I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
Renee Fleming
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
Thomas Carlyle
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I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.
Cholly Atkins
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I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
Adam Sandler
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
Richard Feynman