The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me! Poppy Z. Brite
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. Donald Barthelme
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.C. S. Lewis
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing. Marcus Allen
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.Charles Darwin
To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote. Robert Griffin iii
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. Bryant H.McGill
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. Barbara Deming
We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it. Joan Didion
We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game. John McEnroe
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. Clarence Day
What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing. Shaun White
What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy. Robin McKinley
What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first. Paul Auster
When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy. Max Brooks
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal. Joan Didion
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? Norman Cousins
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. Doris Lessing