#statement

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#convinced #except #familiar #fbi #greatly

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#creating #doing #enjoy #entertainment #i

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#begins #clear #frightening #going #i

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#artistic #even #exactly #i #mission

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#blue #gray #light #lots #me

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#intelligent #isolated #making #occurrence #people

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. ↗

— Donald Trump

#good #good living #i #just #living

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#complex #fit #long #many #powerpoint