You just have to make sure you’re writing about something that’s true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real emotion behind it, regardless of where it’s coming from. – Teddy Thompson
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always ‘Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.’ That’s been true for my entire lifetime. – Ted Cruz
I was trained as journalist never to use the word ‘I,’ never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word ‘I,’ you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement. – Suzy Menkes
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. – Tom Robbins
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. – Simone Weil
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. – Will Rogers
I don’t read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn’t even speak of it because it’s embarrassing, but it’s true. – Susanna Hoffs
You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally. – Spike Jonze
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true. – Stanley B. Prusiner
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt
It’s difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything. – Zack Snyder
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary. – Sergio Aragones
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. – Tom Stoppard
The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like ‘Boardwalk’, ‘Thrones’, ‘True Blood’ but also female-centered comedies like ‘Enlightened’, ‘Veep’ and ‘Girls’. – Sue Naegle
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen. – Sam Ervin
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. – William Robertson Smith
That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true. – Simon Greenleaf
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. – Stephen Fry
For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years. – Spencer Bachus
