Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Evanovich

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

Etgar Keret

The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

Ernst Mach

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

Ernst Mach

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Murray Gell-Mann

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

Moby

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

Mika

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

George H. W. Bush

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

Jim Calhoun

Get some facts and come back and see me!

H. G. Wells

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

Jay Mohr

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

Jay McInerney

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Julian Barbour

If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.

Kevin Powers

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

Ivan Turgenev

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Gregory Maguire

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

J. K. Rowling

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

Ivan Pavlov

Learn, compare, collect the facts!

Grace Paley

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Gary Hamel

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

Gloria Gaynor

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

Giacomo Casanova

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

Kofi Annan

I don't think that the United States government rushes to judgment until all the facts are in.

Ron Suskind

I am not pro-Bush or anti-Bush. I am pro-facts.

I don't think the study found anything particularly revealing. But I think it's always helpful to have more facts rather than just opinions.

I don't think the facts are in dispute, ... Microsoft is going to make a stand on the law, saying, 'Yeah, we do all that stuff. So what?'

However, facts prove that Koizumi went back on his words,

Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch government and report the facts.

James Bryant Conant

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

Jai Courtney

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

James G. Frazer

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.