Facts Quotes - Page 159

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

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.

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.

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.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

From the fact that E is evidence for T and the fact that T entails M, it doesn't follow that E is evidence for M.

When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.

When you talk about Social Security, it's not just enough to say, we're looking at you, this really matters. It's the fact that a million Americans think it matters. Oh, wait, it's 2 million Americans think it matters. No, it's 4 million Americans. It's 6 million, wait, it's 10 million, it's 50 million Americans who care about this. That's how we're going to make change.