Factmy Quotes & Sayings

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started. — John Madden

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous. — Mark Hoppus

As the planet wobbles, once every 26,000 years we visually align with the center of the galaxy. But it's such a slow movement that as we enter the galactic equator (The band of stars in the sky - The Milky Way), it takes 18 years to get to the middle of it, and another 18 to exit it. So astronomically, "The 2012 experience" is a 36 year alignment process, not something that happens on Dec 21, 2012. — Lee Carroll

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking — George Eliot

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. — Terry McAuliffe

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear. — A. Hunter Dupree

Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Celebrate every moment of your courageous life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To live well - to live within your means and to avoid the seduction of the material world. That is what I call prospering. — Jennifer L. Scott

But as Nietzsche said, 'The gods furl their flags at boredom. — Haruki Murakami

If I were younger, I'd know more. — James M. Barrie