Facts Quotes - Page 102

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

There are so many candidates, so it's very hard to get over that number. It's very unfair, in a we are - but because of the fact that there's so many candidates and so many candidates are grabbing delegates.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and its partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists.

Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.

Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.

Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

What I seek to do is to establish the facts as I see them, or as I understand them, and to engage in constructive dialogue to get good outcomes.

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.

Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.