Quotes on Fact

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Author: F. Abraham

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

Author: Floyd Abrams

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

Author: Jenny Agutter

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

Author: Todd Akin

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

Author: James Allen

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

Author: Marcus Allen

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

Author: Marcus Allen

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Author: Al Alvarez

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

Author: Gillian Anderson

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.

Author: Kevin Anderson

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

Author: Philip Anderson

I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships.

Author: Christina Applegate

Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal.

Author: Tom Araya

I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

Author: Adam Arkin

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

Author: Francis Aston

I prefer fact to fiction.

Author: Richard Attenborough

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

Author: Spencer Bachus

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

Author: Bob Balaban

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

Author: James Baldwin

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Author: Hans Balthasar

I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.

Author: Peter Banks

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

Author: Dave Barry

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

Author: Dave Barry

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

Author: Georg Baselitz

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.

Author: Birch Bayh

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Author: Ulrich Beck

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Author: A. Benson

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Author: Sandra Bernhard

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Author: Ugo Betti

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

Author: Julie Bishop

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

Author: Honor Blackman

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Author: Kenneth Blackwell

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.

Author: Joan Blades

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

Author: Alexis Bledel

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Author: Harold Bloom

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.

Author: Edward Bok

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Author: Emma Bonino

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

Author: Jo Bonner

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

Author: Pat Boone

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

Author: F. Bradley

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

Author: Paul Bremer

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Author: John Bright

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

Author: Susie Bright

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

Author: Peter Brimelow

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

Author: Carter Burwell

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.

Author: Gerard Butler

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Author: Octavia Butler

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Author: Sarah Caldwell

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

Author: Stephen Cambone

The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

Author: Matt Cameron

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

Author: Malcolm Campbell

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

Author: Naomi Campbell

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Author: Bliss Carman

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Author: Bliss Carman

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

Author: Marcel Carne

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

Author: Edward Carpenter

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Author: Giacomo Casanova

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

Author: Steve Case

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Author: Willa Cather

In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.

Author: Sarah Chalke

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

Author: Whittaker Chambers

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Author: Harry Chapin

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

Author: Ray Charles

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

Author: Dick Cheney

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

Author: Michael Chertoff

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

Author: Michael Chertoff

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Author: Caryl Chessman

In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.

Author: Alex Chiu

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Author: Winston Churchill

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Author: Eric Clapton

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Author: Arthur Clarke

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.

Author: Joel Coen

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

Author: John Cooper

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

Author: Pierre Corneille

As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.

Author: Jim Costa

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

Author: Jim Costa

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

Author: Ann Coulter

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Author: Noel Coward

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.

Author: Graham Coxon

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Author: Peter Coyote

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Author: Oliver Cromwell

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

Author: Mackenzie Crook

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

Author: Aleister Crowley

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

Author: Penelope Cruz

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation.

Author: Javier Cuadros

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

Author: Elijah Cummings

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

Author: Edwidge Danticat

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

Author: Christopher Darden

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

Author: Keith David

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

Author: Larry David

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

Author: Nathan Deal

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

Author: Howard Dean

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

Author: Jackie DeShannon

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Author: Charles Dickens

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

Author: David Dinkins

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

Author: David Dinkins

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Author: Diogenes

Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.

Author: Elizabeth Dole

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

Author: Kyan Douglas

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

Author: Marjory Douglas

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Author: Arthur Doyle

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Author: Peter Drucker

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

Author: Helen Dunmore

The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

Author: Trevor Dunn

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Author: Wayne Dyer

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Author: Maria Edgeworth

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Author: Thomas Edison

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.

Author: Danny Elfman

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Author: George Eliot

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

Author: Daniel Ellsberg

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

Author: Rahm Emanuel

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Author: Ralph Emerson

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Author: Eminem

Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.

Author: Mike Epps

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

Author: R. Ermey

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

Author: Lorrie Fair

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

Author: Paul Farmer

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Author: Jim Fiebig

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

Author: Sally Field

So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Author: Ken Follett

I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq.

Author: Harold Ford

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

Author: Garrett Fort

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

Author: Robert Fortune

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

Author: Lukas Foss

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

Author: Vito Fossella

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

Author: Leon Foucault

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

Author: Jonathan Franzen

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Author: Milton Friedman

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Author: Nat Friedman

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Author: Robert Fripp

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.

Author: Toshihiko Fukui

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Author: Margaret Fuller

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

Author: Richard Gallienne

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Author: Jean Genet

It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.

Author: Frank Gifford

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

Author: David Gill