Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rufus Wainwright

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

Robert Jordan

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

Robert Peel

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Todd Duncan

Fact: If you don’t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

Steve Reich

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

Steve Schmidt

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone`s entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I`m not sure that`s true anymore.

Stephen Crane

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Vannevar Bush

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Stephen Leacock

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

Sigmund Freud

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

Shawn Amos

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Steven Levy

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

Robert Burns

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

Robert Browning

But facts are facts and flinch not.

Robbie Williams

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak

Russell Baker

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.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

Rick James

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

Rick Warren

The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.

Rick Warren

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

Topher Grace

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

Veronica Roth

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

Richard Attenborough

I prefer fact to fiction.

Tariq Ramadan

There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.

Sydney J. Harris

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Ray Romano

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

Raul Castro

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

Ratan Tata

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They were involved in the business but most of the family wealth was put into trust and most of the family did not in fact did not enjoy enormous wealth.

Stanley Kubrick

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

Stacy Schiff

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Stephen Chbosky

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Colbert

If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you?