Quotes of: Fact Keyword

Grigsby had looked at him askance. “Why is it,” he said, “that I have the distinct impression you’re not surprised by this news?” ‘Surprised by the fact that the reverend is first and foremost a human being? Surprised by the fact that eve...

The Queen of Bedlam

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible tha...

Henry Thomas De la Beche

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Connect Bible Studies: The Da Vinci Code

We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!

Crime and Punishment

I have stories. But stories are not facts.' 'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts.

Falling Kingdoms

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster

The Fault in Our Stars

Faith is knowing that when life doesn’t go quite as planned, it is, in fact. exactly as planned.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.

Hilary Mantel

In 2010, the BBC spent nearly £230,000 on tea, but only £2000 on biscuits.

1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

They say older folks need less sleep, so I must not be old yet.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Science and Hypothesis

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Smooth Talking Stranger

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

I’m not courageous. In fact, when I shadow box I wear boxing gloves that are outfitted with flashlights.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

This Simian World

In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

The White House Years

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as w...

Steven Pinker

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

Henry Mayhew

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

Lee Child