Truthiness Stephen Quotes & Sayings

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal. — Steve Aylett

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong. — Jodi Picoult

The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you. — Pablo Neruda

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you. — Stephen Colbert

And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word!' Well, anybody who knows me knows that I am no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true, what did or didn't happen. — Stephen Colbert

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut. — Stephen Colbert

Wake, soldier wake, thy war-horse waits
To bear thee to the battle back;
Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,
Thy dog would break thy bivouac;
Thy plume is trailing in the dust,
And thy red falchion gathering rust. — Thomas Kibble Hervey

I'm scared," I whispered and put the fork down.
"Yeah, I know ya are. We're all gonna die, Cookie. Death is the devil you know. The better you live, the more you piss him off, and he just hates that. Right now, you're lettin' him get his way. — J.B. Hartnett

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him. — Anthony Kiedis

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father. — Stephen Colbert

Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality. — Stephen Colbert

I wanted them to love the story so they would love me. — Stephen Glass

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support. — Stephen Colbert

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious. — Donald Hall