Facts Quotes - Page 133

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.

In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's soul is eternal.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats cant grasp this simple fact.

The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.