Facts Quotes

• Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Words
  • Feelings
  • Facts

• Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Science
  • Break
  • Scientist

• Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Way
  • Story
  • Facts

• Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Technology
  • Ability
  • Social

• I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • World
  • Looks
  • Backwards

• But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Night
  • Study
  • Succeed

• I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • School
  • Study
  • Theory

• Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Cost
  • Subjects
  • Nonsense

• The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Beautiful
  • Facts
  • Essence

• There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Strange

• Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Past
  • Memories
  • Discovery

• Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Facts
  • Humor
  • Stereotypes

• What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Facts
  • Hallucinations

• The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

  

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • Facts
  • Knowing
  • Perfection

• I think that is a really good message, especially for young girls to hear. The fact that someone like me from the western suburbs of Sydney could become an actress in movies who didn't look like a regular actress, and that I can make it I think gives a lot of hope to other girls who are really creative and don't necessarily follow the standard of what some people consider beauty to be.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Looks
  • Creative
  • Messages

• In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

  

  Chris Argyris
  • Management
  • Behavior
  • Responsible

• Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

  

  Ivan Pavlov
  • Facts
  • Mystery
  • Origin

• This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Walking
  • Drug
  • Ends

• I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.

  

  David Bazan
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Ends

• 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
  • Language
  • Magic
  • Speak

• If people want to watch that five hours [of stream show] on their own terms in their own schedule. It needs to work if somebody wants to stop after an hour and a half or stop after half an hour. People talk about it like food. Like, "I just want to let you know I'm saving it." They talk about it like pasta. "I'm saving it. I'm only going to have one a week." And I love the fact that everybody can have their own experience and I want to make sure that what we put out there works in as many ways as possible.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Needs
  • Week
  • Hours

• All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

  

  Stewart O'Nan
  • Stories
  • Promise
  • Teach

• I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Novel
  • Grateful

• Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Reality
  • Romantic
  • Facts

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