Factoid Books Quotes & Sayings

The true religion of America has always been America. — Norman Mailer

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat! — Helen Reddy

I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began to perceive that anything written was fiction to various degrees. The whole subject
the difference between actuality and representation
was an interesting one. And that's what brought me to literature in the first place. — Paul Fussell

Always tried to be positive with her, although I'd learned — Barbara Kingsolver

Fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth. — Stephen King

Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them. — Takashi Murakami

Those jeans are comfortable, and for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I'm sorry I'm not the guy. It just doesn't fit me. I'm not 20. — Barack Obama

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.' — Mark Billingham

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not. — William Gibson

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going. — Ravi Shankar

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment ... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. — Edward Weston

To be is to be the value of a variable. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Every choice you make has an end result. — Zig Ziglar

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be. — Dale Carnegie