All Quotes

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.
‐‐ Clint Hill

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
‐‐ Tori Amos

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
‐‐ Beau Willimon

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.
‐‐ Frank B. Kellogg

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.
‐‐ Simon Conway Morris

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.
‐‐ Joe Torre

The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast.
‐‐ Richard O'Brien

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
‐‐ Lukas Foss

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.
‐‐ Hector Elizondo

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
‐‐ Hart Crane

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

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

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

The fact that the Conservatives are losing voters to UKIP while struggling to attract those who voted for other parties in 2010 suggests they have still not successfully shown what a Conservative government is for. This needs to be done on a broad front in a way that encompasses the economy and public services.
‐‐ Michael Ashcroft

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
‐‐ Lorrie Fair

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
‐‐ Randy Bachman

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
‐‐ Florence Ellinwood Allen

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
‐‐ Virgil Goode

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.
‐‐ Stephen Wolfram

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
‐‐ Jerome Kern

The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
‐‐ Said Nursi

The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do, and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about 'this is what's happening to the blogosphere.'
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
‐‐ Barney Frank

The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening.
‐‐ Jessi Colter

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.
‐‐ Sy Montgomery

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
‐‐ Martin McDonagh

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
‐‐ James Mark Baldwin

The fact that 'True Blood' affects people in this way is incredible to me - the fact we have to go to such great lengths to hide storylines just proves the cache our show has.
‐‐ Ryan Kwanten

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
‐‐ Barack Obama

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
‐‐ Georges Simenon

The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting 'fiesta,' 'taco,' or talking in the same way most Latin characters do in American television.
‐‐ Jaime Camil

The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we're like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.
‐‐ Stanley Elkin

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
‐‐ Robert Nozick

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
‐‐ Jack White

The fact that we have one out of four people in this state on Medicaid is unsustainable; it's unaffordable, and we need to create jobs in this state, not more government programs to cover people.
‐‐ Matt Bevin

The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that's easy to forget - it's the dog that doesn't bark.
‐‐ Alex Berenson