"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

Fact,

48

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

Exlpore more Fact quotes

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Fact, Facts, Theories

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fact, Interest

"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

Fact,

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Fact, Facts, Principles

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor

Fact, Facts

"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

Fact, Will

"The facts are on our side."

Karen Hughes, American Politician

Fact, Facts

"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

Katey Sagal, American Athlete

Fact, Growingup, Self

"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

Neil Innes, British Writer

Fact, Moon

"I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded."

Frederic Remington, American Artist

Fact, Facts, Land

Explore more quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby

"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."

Truth

"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."

Tax

"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish."

Old

"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."

Communication

"Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words."

Media

"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."

Vision

"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."

Battle

"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."

Life

"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."

Communication

"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."

Knowledge