Selective Truth Quotes

#1. Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

Eric Fellner

#2. I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

Ian Frazier

#3. I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

Alex Winston

#4. Who says there have been no female prophet on earth, what about your mother.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

Julianna Margulies

#6. Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

#7. There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

Akio Morita

#8. Thus set up, pen in hand, for the sake of greater truth, I would turn Portugal into a fiction. That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? What need did I have to go to Portugal? The

Yann Martel

#9. I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.

Jim Courier

#10. I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

Anna Quindlen

#11. I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew.

Aspen Matis

#12. i will always tell you the truth.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

Raymond Pettibon

#14. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

Terry Gross

#15. She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

Scott Westerfeld

#16. Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.

Robert Jordan

#17. Well, you not the first by a long shot. An integrated army is integrated misery. You all go fight, come back, they treat you like dogs. Change that. They treat dogs better.

Toni Morrison

#18. Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

E.L. Doctorow

#19. Daring to dream means daring to live.

Robert H. Schuller