Facts Quotes - page 52

That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration. (Jonathan Dee)
Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you. View quote
Julian Baggini
The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments. View quote
Julian Baggini
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. View quote
Jamais Cascio
You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter. View quote
Justin Townes Earle
So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts. View quote
Kevin O'Leary
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views. View quote
Kim Dotcom
The facts are on our side. View quote
Karen Hughes
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. View quote
Karl Pearson
That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. (Karl Urban)
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. View quote
Leslie Cockburn
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people. View quote
Louis Stokes
I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems. View quote
Lucas Papademos
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it. View quote
Luke Scott
If you want to get to know somebody you don't ask other people: 'How is she?' You talk to the person herself. And then you don't ask about facts like 'date of birth' or 'profession of parents.' but you talk about essential questions and themes in life. View quote
Angelina Maccarone
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research. View quote
James Marsh
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression. View quote
Jed S. Rakoff
I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them. View quote
John White Geary
Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter. View quote
Ken Starr
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial. (Levi Woodbury)
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history. View quote
Martin Kippenberger
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back. View quote
Martin O'Malley
If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die. View quote
Matthew Gray Gubler
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! View quote
Maxine Kumin