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- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who…
- It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very…
- People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness…
- Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself…
- If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer,…
- The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much…
- Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
- Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you…
- For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two -…
- The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner',…
- The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t…
- The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear…
- The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly…
- Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome,…
- The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend…
- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much…
- Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England,…
- My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead…
- In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century…
- A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was…
- Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of…
- In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research…
More Fact Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- 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
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden