The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer… — Dave Gorman Copy Share Image
... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed… — John E. Jones III Copy Share Image
We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“John F Kennedy (President Elect) was at the White house in order to confer with his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower. He was told… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“For a lie to add piquancy to a story the story would be factual. Fantasy needs no lie to stimulate or excite.… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
People leave because of their own overts and withholds. That is the factual fact and the hard-bound rule. A man with a… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image