
„Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.“
— Dorothy L. Sayers English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer 1893 - 1957
— Dorothy L. Sayers English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer 1893 - 1957
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
— Peter Handke Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942
— Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Amy, in Ch. 44 : My Lord and Lady
— Clive Staples Lewis Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898 - 1963
As quoted in Of This and Other Worlds (1982) by Walter Hooper, Preface, p. 9
— Charles Eames American designer, half of duo the Eames 1907 - 1978
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
— George Lucas American film producer 1944
— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942
Context: I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
As quoted in "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'" by Ian Sample, in The Guardian (15 May 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven
— Chris Brown American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor , and painter 1989