Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Moores

Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Marcus Williams

Some people assumed I would go from 12 to 20, that is what I was hearing.

Abby Cohen

Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent from 20 percent and a rise in core inflation.

Mike Stoller

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

Wayne Coyne

It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.

John Davis

I think people would have assumed a 50 percent cut in roaming charges over three years. If they did it by the end of 2007 -- a year quicker -- then it's a little bit negative.

Dale Jr

I think everybody saw it coming, and I'm glad he's back. Last weekend was a good start for us. I was real proud of my team. People assumed that we'd just go through the motions in these final 10 races, but honestly, Tony Jr. coming back has kind of put a jolt in our enthusiasm. He's bound and determined to win some of these races and remind everybody what they've got to deal with next year.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

Ian Mckellen

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

Gurinder Chadha

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Todd Wagner

Our core business strategy is to create new opportunities for the consumer, ... what we¹re doing has never been done before. As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.

James Baker

Our autumn programming promises to be our strongest line-up to date. We're confident that Sky One continues to bring the best from the US with 'Weeds' set to mirror its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, 'Threshold' exhibiting the potential for an 'X-Files' style cross-over success and returning series 'Nip/Tuck' and 'The 4400' continuing to captivate audiences.

Des McAnuff

Our audiences will feel like they are experiencing Sinatra's life first hand,

Van Toffler

Our audiences want to connect with our content on every platform they interact with-linear television, broadband, online, radio, and now on PCs that run Windows XP Media Center. Today's announcement helps fulfill our multiplatform entertainment promise, ... The distinction between TV and broadband programming is becoming less important to our viewers, and the Media Center Edition platform is helping to take the entire entertainment experience to the next level.

Brian Graden

our audiences are home in a way they're not during the school year.

Frankie Avalon

Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum.

Kurt Braunohler

Other than Caroline's in New York, I pretty much haven't done clubs. That was primarily because I always liked the people and audiences at theaters and bars better.

Lynn Coady

That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is.

Caroline Leavitt

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

Hal Rubenstein

If the script is sharp and witty, the movie will offer an inside peek into an industry that fascinates and antagonizes most people.

Frank Galati

Murakami has said that what always fascinates him most are the things he doesn't understand. And his work is filled with people who are in that somewhat inchoate state of being on the threshold of knowing, but not quite knowing -- which can be maddening, but which can also make you giddy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

Hilary Mantel

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

Gia Coppola

My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.

Keith Richards

Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.

Author unknown

I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.