Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stefan Sagmeister

It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.

Ashwin Sanghi

I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.

Saul Alinsky

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Susan B. Anthony

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Brigham Young

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

Bonnie Fuller

If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

Arjuna Mahendran

The fact that the talks are resuming is a big positive. But it's going to be a slow process.

Bruce Lee

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.

Eckhart Tolle

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.

Bliss Carman

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bill Plympton

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Edmond Rostand

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Douglass

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Audrey Hepburn

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Arthur Eddington

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

Arthur C. Clarke

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

Daniel Handler

The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

Dan Ariely

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

Clarice Lispector

Facts and particulars annoy me,

Elizabeth Strout

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

The only positive I can take from that game is the fact that we got a point,

There are different factions and backgrounds and points of view in the Conservative coalition.

Gina McKee

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

Ruth Ginsburg

We hold that back wages are subject to ... taxes prescribed for the year in which the wages are in fact paid,

Yes, it sure seemed that way. The sad fact of the matter is that, at 35, we don't really have the luxury of healing time.

We did pretty well. I think the fact that we reduced the number of students retained while our population increased is significant.