Martha Grimes Quotes

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?

Don't confuse facts with reality.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament,, and embrace it with passion.

How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?

From an English perspective King Richard the Lionhearted was not even English. He was French. He grew up in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. He spoke no English.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

The [English] national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.

I'm not the face of Mexico.

I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.