#fact

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. ↗

— David Bowie

#could #even #existence #fact #formed

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dead #dream #drop #eyes #factories

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#american film #brick #brick wall #british #business

What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#again #always #discover #enough #fact

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. ↗

— Tim Bray

#better #community #cost #deploy #developers

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#aware #be prepared #deeply #dimension #factor

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. ↗

— Carol Alt

#fiction #sometimes #stranger #than

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#address #also #best #chronic #companies