Famous Quotes & Sayings

Momentum is really big, a really big factor with a youthful squad. It's nice when they can keep it going.

Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Baruch Spinoza

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Barbara Mertz

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

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.

We have received assurances that he is at most a fact witness.

The fact that so many congressional seats are noncompetitive is not fair, but one state reforming the way it does redistricting is like unilateral disarmament,

Judy Woodruff

The fact that she's the first African-American woman to be named not only to be national security advisor, but to go on to be named secretary of state -- she's already made history from that standpoint. Second woman to be named secretary of state, first African-American woman to be named secretary of state.

Chris Mooney

The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

The fact that Seattle is so far away is a significant one,

The fact that prices have come down makes people feel better and they think the future looks better.

Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

The fact that people don't recognize how big we are is OK. That'll change. We have the talent, we have the tools and we're going to make some noise.

The fact that no one wants to take responsibility for the intelligence failures is unbelievable.

Stanley Hauerwas

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.

Otto Schily

The fact that Linux provides a true alternative to the Windows operating system,

The fact that King preached there and Miss Coretta Scott had been there on that same day is, I think, just a wonderful story.

Deena Kastor

The fact that I won makes it a little sweeter.

Jonathan Coe

The fact that it was a TV sitcom rather than a literary novel is neither here nor there, as far as I'm concerned.

The fact that it was all steel with weak industrial and automotive is not the most favorable mix. With the strength of the stock, profit taking is not uncommon, particularly after a quarter like this.

The fact that it has never been done before in a conference, to have three teams is really special. I think it really validates the three teams and the conference.

James Mercer

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

Dennis Haysbert

The fact that I'm an African-American man as a lead, it really doesn't surprise me at all because I've never seen myself as a victim or any of those things. I just thought that when I wasn't a lead before, it was just shortsighted.

The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development.

The fact that his family was there and that he traveled with so little clothing, ... to come back.

Alexis Herman

The fact of the matter is, the increasing impact of technology is fueling productivity,

The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.

The fact of the matter is that when you're doing what is essentially a turnaround and trying to get feet back under something, it doesn't always go that smoothly.

Jewel Staite

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.