- Promises
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Expressed
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor.
- Loved
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
- Real
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.
- I Am
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
- Investigate
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
- Key
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
- Day
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.
- Earmark
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
- Stand
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020