Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megyn Price

A lot of people assume that once you're working in Hollywood you become some sort of glamour-diva, which could not be further from the truth about me.

A lot of people wanted to assume it's about the 600 home runs: ?He had to get to 600 home runs. He needed to keep playing. It's not that. It's not that he has to stay in uniform just to be in uniform.

A lot of the policy discussion seems to assume that once this bill is passed, some of the undocumented aliens will simply leave the country and others will stop coming.

Stanley Hauerwas

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

You should never assume that your homeowners' policy covers your home business. In most cases, it doesn't.

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

You should assume that as charitable as it is, you have total liability for these individuals, in the same way as if a stranger came to your house just invited for a dinner party. If they slipped and fell, you're going to be liable for them. You do not enjoy any immunity from liability. It's a sad statement, but that's the world we live in today.

Jamais Cascio

You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.

You might have a situation where the Fed raises rates, modifies the language a little bit but intends to keep on going. If the market assumes that it's one more and done that might be a misread.

Nicole Holofcener

You can't just assume that everybody is in the same situation. And with children we all have ideas about how money should be spent on them and it's not like there's an ugly thing in my life and between my friends it's just I thought it was a fun thing to write about.

There was a time when we heard a bin Laden tape and assumed an attack would take place shortly thereafter somewhere in the world. That hasn't been the case for several years now, and the things he says very often don't happen.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Eleanor Catton

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

It's a big change. It's assumed this will provide some motivation for people to go out and take more bears.

It wasn't that bad. Everyone wants to talk about that, about how much I got beat up. I don't realize what other quarterbacks go through. All I know is what I go through, and I just assume that's pretty much what everyone goes through.

John Manley

It was clearly wrong to assume that this would be a walkover, ... but now I think the market is being a bit too pessimistic.

Kirk Talley

He thought because he didn't carry the money out of the restaurant that he could get out of the charges. He didn't know extortion is the threat, not the exchange of money. When his lawyer realized he was going away, that he wouldn't have a chance of any kind of dealing with the Feds, he assumed he needed to do something, I guess, to justify him getting his fee. So, he called the Knoxville paper and told them who I was. On the complaint I was just listed as 'victim.

Tom Cooper

He said she became hysterical and they got into a big fight. He said he couldn't take her doing this anymore. I assume this was an ongoing argument.

Brad Ausmus

Generally, if there's any question, I would either tag the guy or throw the ball to first or turn around and look at the umpire and show him the ball and get a definitive out call, ... I see both sides of the issue. I think in Josh Paul's mind, there was no question, and the replay seems to show he caught the ball. I understand why he assumed the batter was out, but by the same token he did reach down toward the ground.

Elaine Pagels

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

Everything in our business is competitive. I assume the hiring on our head coaching will be competitive.

Even if you assume that they were right about the revenues that baseball would be expected to generate, and I don't think that they are, it's pretty much exactly the same amount. And the developers of this project didn't get any public funds. And that's going to be a bigger benefit for the city.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass ittoward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippledwithout choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all').

Scott Hall

Boaters told us they assumed the storm would weaken as it crossed the state, but that didn't happen. As a result, lots of boaters were caught off guard.

Bishops have tried to hide this for years, so there is no reason to believe all of a sudden they would change their ways. The only prudent thing to do is to assume this is not the entire truth. This is a survey, not a report or investigation.

Black Kettle, who had put on his peace medals for the soldiers to see, left his wife - who was drenched in blood - as he assumed she was dead.

Ice T

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

Everybody knows soccer is going to continue to grow. I assume eventually we're talking lights, bleachers, concession stands, aren't we? ... I can see in the future we might have to build a road from the theater ... just to handle things.

Every state was decisive in 2000, so let's not just focus on Florida. Let's not assume that Florida is the end of the rainbow.

Assume that all estimates are self-interested and all estimates are too low, ... The government is like a contractor ù whatever it says, triple.

Mara Wilson

Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.

As the game gets more serious or more important, the effect gets stronger in a linear fashion. We didn't see any spikes after the games in visits. What we assume is that people decided to wait.