Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chelsea Cain

When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.

We knew the half-backs would drop off for Hawthorn and as it evolved, the half-forwards push high up, so our half-back becomes our quarterback. He's our smartest player so he assumed that responsibility. We usually try to put Peter in where you've got to think your way through it the most.

We just weren't mentally prepared. I think the guys just assumed that teams at the bottom (of the conference) would lay down for us.

We're not in a position at this time to provide revised numbers. (But) it's safe to assume we will not make our third- or fourth- quarter numbers.

Jonathan Ive

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

Mahmoud Abbas

Why assume that there will be crisis? Let us resort to dialogue. Everything comes through dialogue.

Too often, the vast middle is overlooked. Not every child is a math whiz kid and we shouldn't assume so.

Brian Baird

To say that we have provisions for getting the leadership out is to assume that we're all alive, ... What makes people assume that the terrorists are going to give us a friendly phone call and say 'You better leave town?' We will most likely have no warning if this happens, and the weapons available can destroy us. It's horrible to consider, but it's true.

Those who speak to the secretary-general are entitled to assume that their exchanges are confidential. The secretary-general therefore would want this practice stopped, if indeed it exists.

We don't assume every single one of our kids will go to college, but we want them to be prepared for life after high school.

We don't assume anything here. We go day to day.

Virginia Madsen

When my son was really little, he assumed everyone was on TV because his uncle is on TV, my best friend is on TV, friends I know are in movies and his grandmother is a writer. One day he was looking at this commercial and he was positive that his nanny was in it. I said, "No, honey. That's not her.

We assume they will be back at work tomorrow.

We assume that would lead to there being sufficient energy reserves in the market and, second, we would wish the pressure on the prices of oil products to be lessened,

We assume that will begin to happen during the first half of next year.

We assume that we won't be in the black in 2007.

We assume that things don't evolve. That Bill Clinton was always this gifted communicator because that's how he left office. But he had to grow. There were some bad days.

We assume that they are missing, but we have no idea where they are.

Jeff Lewis

We assume that that will eventually happen with ours. We are recommending that they be replaced based on what's happened at other plants.

We assume that in some segments (rural communications) and regional markets (remote districts) we remain monopolists. But there are markets where competition with mobile and alternative fixed-line operators is very high. And these are firstly major Russian cities.

We assume that BMW Group will remain on this path of growth in 2006.

We assume our fruits and vegetables are protected. As we learned from 9/11, you can't take anything for granted.

Madeleine M. Kunin

We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

We assume father and son were communicating by letter and possibly a third party who may have visited Rodriguez in prison. We believe they had been planning the escape for at least six months and probably longer.

We assumed the sewage would lessen the salinity, but at surf sites, that wasn't the case.

We assumed the folks at Budweiser would have more confidence in their driver's performance, especially given that so many experts and fans expect Dale Junior and his team to be so strong this season.

Wade Horn

We assumed that victims would in large numbers escape the situation that they were in and come forward. They didn't do that.

We assumed that everyone was out of the house because they were all together.

We assume at this point he lost control.

We as public health officials ... must assume the worst-case scenario and H5N1 is now giving us a lot of signs that is becoming a little more worrisome, if not a lot a more worrisome, because of the events that are going on,

I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.

Ivan Krastev

As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat. But this does not mean that China won't exploit that world for its own purposes.

Isaiah Washington

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.