Facts Quotes - Page 101

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.

The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the moment of exposure, does not see very far.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

There are no facts, only stories.

I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

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.

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.