#facts

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction. ↗

— Janet Leigh

#facts #fiction #gives #i #i think

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

Without desire, one is a walking cadaver. ↗

— Karldon Okruta

#humour #inspirational-attitude #wake-up-call #attitude

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents. ↗

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

#book-lover #books #love

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery. ↗

— George MacDonald

#facts #imagination #imagination

Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much... ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #simon-lewis #life

So you have to accept facts as fact. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#facts #manga #nana #manga

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#consistency #details #dramatic-effect #facts #sherlock-holmes

Don't confuse facts with reality. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#facts #reality

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years. ↗

— Alan Alda

#been #deeply #does #facts #feeling