300 Quotes on Fact

• Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  Author: Xun Zi

• I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

  Author: La Young

• Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

  Author: James Young

• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Author: Don Young

• Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

  Author: Lee Yew

• But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

  Author: Chen Yang

• I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

  Author: Martin Yan

• The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

  Author: Wilbur Wright

• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Author: Rick Wright

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  Author: Frances Wright

• Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

  Author: Frances Wright

• Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same.

  Author: John Wozniak

• Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

  Author: George Woodcock

• My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

  Author: George Woodcock

• I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

  Author: Roy Wood

• First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

  Author: Beatrice Wood

• And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.

  Author: Lee Womack

• In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• A picture is a fact.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

  Author: Garry Winogrand

• So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  Author: A. Wilson

• I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

  Author: William Wills

• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

  Author: Paul Williams

• As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.

  Author: Montel Williams

• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Author: Juan Williams

• Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

  Author: Charles Williams

• Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

  Author: Eugene Wigner

• It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

  Author: Edward Weston

• Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

  Author: Samuel West

• You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

  Author: Morris West

• You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

  Author: Morris West

• The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

  Author: Morris West

• There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

  Author: Allen West

• Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  Author: Ida Wells

• In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

  Author: Robert Welch

• It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.

  Author: Peter Weir

• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Author: Simone Weil

• The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

  Author: Beatrice Webb

• I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

  Author: Hugo Weaving

• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  Author: Jackie Weaver

• Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

  Author: James Watson

• I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

  Author: Emma Watson

• The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

  Author: John Warnock

• It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government.

  Author: Mark Warner

• If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

  Author: Fred Ward

• In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.

  Author: Burt Ward

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

  Author: Rob Walton

• The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

  Author: Neale Walsch

• The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

  Author: David Wallace

• The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

  Author: David Wallace

• The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

  Author: Murray Walker

• The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

  Author: Alice Walker

• In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

  Author: George Wald

• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

  Author: Lindsay Wagner

• Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

  Author: Joan Vinge

• You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

  Author: Tim Vine

• Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.

  Author: Sid Vicious

• But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

  Author: Ville Valo

• I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

  Author: Keith Urban

• I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

  Author: Bob Uecker

• That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

  Author: Cicely Tyson

• The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

  Author: John Tyndall

• And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

  Author: Alan Turing

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  Author: Mao Tung

• The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Author: Pierre Trudeau

• The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

  Author: Robert Trout

• Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

  Author: Lars Trier

• I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.

  Author: Pat Travers

• My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

  Author: Robert Towne

• I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

  Author: Carrot Top

• The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

  Author: Strom Thurmond

• My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

  Author: James Thurber

• Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

  Author: William Thomas

• The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

  Author: Dave Thomas

• It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Author: Keith Thibodeaux

• In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

  Author: Terence

• A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

  Author: Edward Teller

• Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

  Author: Henry Taylor

• I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

  Author: Elizabeth Taylor

• We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

  Author: Allen Tate

• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  Author: Yoshio Taniguchi

• In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

  Author: William Taft

• Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

  Author: Jimmy Swaggart

• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Author: Shunryu Suzuki

• You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

  Author: Joan Sutherland

• We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

  Author: Kim Sung

• In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

  Author: Anna Strong

• But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

  Author: Eric Stoltz

• There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

  Author: Bram Stoker

• Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

  Author: Mark Steyn

• In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

  Author: Potter Stewart

• We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

  Author: Jackie Stewart

• To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

  Author: George Stephen

• I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

  Author: George Stephen

• I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

  Author: Mary Steenburgen

• If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

  Author: Peter Steele

• Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

  Author: John Spratt

• Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

  Author: Oswald Spengler

• An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

  Author: John Speke

• I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

  Author: David Soul

• Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

  Author: George Soros

• The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

  Author: Brett Somers

• To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

  Author: Socrates

• Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

  Author: John Snow

• Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

  Author: John Snow

• Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

  Author: Patti Smith

• No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

  Author: Patti Smith

• Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

  Author: John Sladek

• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

  Author: Gene Siskel

• I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it.

  Author: Peter Singer

• It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

  Author: Peter Singer

• I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

  Author: Wallis Simpson

• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

  Author: George Simpson

• The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

  Author: George Simpson

• All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

  Author: Georges Simenon

• We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

  Author: Clifford Simak

• For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

  Author: Dave Sim

• I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

  Author: Josh Silver

• But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

  Author: Matthew Shipp

• The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

  Author: Jenny Shipley

• Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

  Author: Hu Shih

• In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

  Author: Mark Shields

• Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

  Author: Michael Shermer

• Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

  Author: Richard Shelby

• But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

  Author: Ally Sheedy

• I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

  Author: Wallace Shawn

• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

  Author: George Shaw

• This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

  Author: Michael Shanks

• My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

  Author: Shakira

• I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

  Author: John Shadegg

• There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

  Author: Jon Secada

• In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

  Author: John Searle

• The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

  Author: David Seabury

• What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

  Author: William Scranton

• And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.

  Author: William Scranton

• I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.

  Author: Tim Scott

• Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

  Author: Tim Scott

• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

  Author: Robert Scott

• I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

  Author: Peter Scott

• The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

  Author: Lee Scott

• The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Author: Gerhard Schroeder

• The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

  Author: Erwin Schrodinger

• No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

  Author: Heinrich Schliemann

• The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

  Author: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

• In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

  Author: Adam Schiff

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