Matter-of-fact Quotes

I consider myself a realist.

I'm very practical and realistic.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

I'm amazed when I hear my daughters with their friends. They'll just talk openly about, 'Yeah, he used to be a girl and now he's a boy.' It gives me a lot of hope... It's so matters of fact. It's like they're saying blue and yellow make green. I love that.

I'm a pretty realistic person.

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

I am very down to earth and practical.

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately... Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

It's all downloading. As a matter of fact, within five years, there will be no CDs.

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.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

I am a realistic person.

While I think in principle people should not have irrational beliefs, I should say that as a matter of fact, it is people who hold what I regard as completely irrational beliefs who are among the most effective moral actors in the world, in many respects. They're among the worst, but also among the best, even though the moral beliefs are ostensibly the same.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

I'm very pragmatic.