Fact Quotes

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

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

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

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.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

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

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

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.

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.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

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

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.