The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
‐‐ Nancy Kress
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
‐‐ Al Pacino
The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
‐‐ Iain McGilchrist
The truth just happens - lies take time to make.
‐‐ Michael Cudlitz
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver
The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.
‐‐ George Karl
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs
The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
‐‐ Taylor Swift
The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
‐‐ George Hamilton
The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.
‐‐ Robert Englund
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
‐‐ Bill Gates
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas
The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
‐‐ Patrick Stewart
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
‐‐ Julie Burchill
The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.
‐‐ Nate Berkus
The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry
The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up in being a black actor; I'm just an actor who is a black woman. It's not about forgetting that you're black, but you don't need to be hammered over the head, either; it just is what it is.
‐‐ Condola Rashad
The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly
The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.
‐‐ Andrea Martin
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
‐‐ Christopher McQuarrie
The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond.
‐‐ Luke Evans
The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created in an independent Scotland; it was created on Westminster's watch.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
‐‐ Harold Prince
The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.
‐‐ Ree Drummond
The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
‐‐ Michael Winner
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
‐‐ Scott Turow
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.
‐‐ Reza Aslan
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller
The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam
The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
‐‐ Emanuel Cleaver
The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
‐‐ James Ellroy
The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.
‐‐ Arthur Laffer
The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.
‐‐ Joseph Force Crater
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci
The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't, it would take me 20 minutes to walk to school. If I did, it took me 15. That's the reason I loved it. I just had more of a kick in my step, more of a bounce, so I'd walk quicker.
‐‐ James Corden
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
‐‐ Pasquier Quesnel
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan
The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
‐‐ Geri Halliwell
The truth sustains me.
‐‐ Pat Nixon
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
‐‐ Sarah Bernhardt