All Quotes

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
‐‐ John Berger

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
‐‐ George Santayana

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
‐‐ Robertson Davies

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
‐‐ Yann Martel

Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.
‐‐ John Ridley

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
‐‐ Carlo Collodi

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
‐‐ Marie Corelli

Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.
‐‐ Christopher Heyerdahl

Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
‐‐ Greg Egan

Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes.
‐‐ Dave Brat

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very short period of time.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Fannie Mae has traditionally only bought and sold mortgages. But when a loan held by the company goes into foreclosure, Fannie Mae gains ownership of the underlying property until it is resold to new investors.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.
‐‐ George Vecsey

Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.
‐‐ Audrey Meadows

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.
‐‐ Simone Elkeles

Fans always tell me I'm beautiful, but no one will ever be as beautiful as them.
‐‐ Niall Horan

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.
‐‐ Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.
‐‐ Yelawolf

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere. I read the newspapers voraciously, so I know what's going on in real crime. I pay attention to the strange stories people tell me, and I also read a lot of scientific and forensic journals.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

Fans are awesome.
‐‐ Nate Robinson

Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.
‐‐ Chuck Inglish

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

Fans are so grateful when you go places they don't expect you to go.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

Fans are the best. I'd do whatever for them.
‐‐ Ryan Sheckler

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
‐‐ Charley Pride

Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break out. I often tell fans who say, 'Make a 'Gulal 2' or 'Gangs 3,' that I am living my dream, not theirs.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.
‐‐ Gina Bellman

Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
‐‐ R. Kelly

Fans don't boo nobodies.
‐‐ Reggie Jackson

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.
‐‐ Nicola Formichetti

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.
‐‐ Clay Matthews III

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

Fans have always said that I would make a great Indiana Jones, a great Young Indiana Jones.
‐‐ Corey Feldman

Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.
‐‐ Gong Li

Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.
‐‐ Sean Combs

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.
‐‐ Simon Bird