My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.

It’s called the Ailey American Dance Theatre, not the Alvin Ailey African-American Dance Theatre. One thing also that Alvin wanted people to recognize, he had to wake up black every day. That’s not an issue....

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can...

The only thing that’s ours to accept is the fact that we don’t always get to know the answers.

When you’re no longer ill, and everyone’s gotten over the fact that you’ve had cancer, that core of steel doesn’t go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional

A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and...

But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there’s only one Savior.

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or...

Truth is something believed in heart.Fact is anything happened in realities.

What we’re talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have...

What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this...

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It’s not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women’s groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on...

Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people. In fact – coming back to the land mass – Africa is so...

You know, I’ve just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there’s any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre...

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

I’ve done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they’re good reviews – you believe that and you’re lost, and then you read bad...

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.

Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that...

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you’ve got some dues to pay to...

The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

You don’t have to be a ‘person of influence’ to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present...

You can change someone by your actions, not by your words

An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of the modern geologist from the controlling and perverting influence of theology,...

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we’re exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness...

I was like any new bride, who said, ‘I’m going to cook for my man.’ In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I...

Happy Wikipedia Wednesday. Post a positive fact for proper Netiquette.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say...

I’m always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I’m English.

I don’t need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I’ve still got it inside...

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It’s the greatest taboo subject of all.

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going...

I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

…most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in...

Enlightening people with facts is also a form of social service.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.