Facts Quotes - Page 83

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

Sometimes I'm like Dory from Finding Nemo. I can't remember facts.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Some people say that it's so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There's so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that's just getting into business.

. . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.