Facts Quotes

• I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Care

• And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Term
  • Form
  • Democratic

• 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

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

  

  Carter Burwell
  • World
  • Looks
  • Backwards

• There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

  

  Nick Sagan
  • Society
  • Ignorance
  • Facts

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

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Way
  • Story
  • Facts

• The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Remember
  • Matter
  • Depression

• We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Facts
  • Rich
  • Buried

• The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Lying
  • Values
  • Intellectual

• Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Needs
  • Humans
  • Creation

• 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

• You are the creator of your own reality, and so you are not in jeopardy. You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive. Your attention to things that you think they do that keeps you from your thriving is, in fact, what keeps you from your thriving... It is not what they do to you; it's what you do to you in fear of what you think that they will do to you.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Sometimes
  • Bored
  • Walks

• It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

  

  Carrie Snow
  • Technology
  • Imagine
  • Social

• The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Bible
  • Facts
  • Theories

• Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Facts
  • Performances
  • Composer

• In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Remember
  • Littles
  • Amount

• The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Dialogue

• My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Prove
  • Demand

• In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Community
  • Existence
  • Class

• My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Nice
  • Waiting
  • Economy

• Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Color
  • Photography
  • Dangerous

• We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.

  

  Tommy Franks
  • Today
  • Facts
  • Remarkable

• The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Feels

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