Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyric poetry is by its very nature elegiac - we write about what in fact is already slipping away from us,

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us a finished product because we're not. But I like the steps we're taking. I like the fact that players are having some fun doing it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

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.

Brian Tracy

Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

Kim Fields

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

Krista Tippett

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.

This will not be a factor for Penn State medical students.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

When the mind wavers, loyalty sits light; love disappears; and faction begins.

Charles Spurgeon

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Charles Olson

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Dennis Prager

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

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.

Benjamin Graham

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.

Bruce Sterling

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

Short-term rate expectations remain the single most important factor for dollar/yen,

Jennifer Coolidge

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

Robert Zoellick

Since the day started with the fact that I had a hard time getting them in the room together, I think there was some progress by getting them to listen to my ... message and listen to the views of our international partners,

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing

Most people have planned this weekend in advance, they've planned all spring for it. So the fact that they're going to have to spend a little more is not going to derail their plans.

missed the fact that this passenger was a positive match.