Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not doctors. We have to tell people that all the time. They look at us when we walk in the door and they assume we know everything.

Tom Ford

Let's assume you've taken 27 semester credit hours in the Fall and the spring - you need three hours to get to 30. If you get 3 hours during the Summer we'll rebate you $50 a semester credit hour so that we offset some of the cost you had to pay in the Fall and the Spring.

Robert Parry

Let's assume inflation averages 1 to 2 percent. Then you could see maybe the natural funds rate would be -- I don't know -- 3.5 percent, something like that,

Let's assume he has the opportunity to make a documentary for TV for $7 million. It's not going to make much of a difference, is it? Not worth committing a crime over?

Let's just assume that everyone running is honorable and just say what the differences are and let the people decide, ... That's what I hope will happen in this election, because in our lifetime, we may never get another chance like this.

Stanley Hauerwas

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

David Brown

What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.

With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up.

Indonesia is a very huge country, geographically and in number of people, and there is still a lot of growth in the income level; It is very easy to assume there is a lot of demand for travel.

Carlton Cuse

I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.

Kevin Henkes

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Mike DeWine

When you put on that black robe and assume your spot on the Supreme Court, you will surely bring with you your heart and your soul, the values you learned from your parents and others that you learned as you grew up in the wide open fields of your youth, ... I must say, sir, they must never leave you.

When the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

When the letter was withdrawn, I assumed that they did not want to pursue it further.

Tom Wolfe

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

Todd Rundgren

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.

Gore Vidal

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

Condoleezza Rice

Most people assume on the ground that it probably has passed,

David Wilson

Most people assumed that spring 2006 was for a domestic Japanese launch and historically Europe has always been the last to receive Japanese technology. I think it is actually good news that we are attempting a simultaneous launch so people don't resent the fact that other territories have it first. I think people have been positively surprised that it will be out before Christmas.

Minnesotans had come to see the timber company land as their own, pretty much as public land, and we assumed it would always be out there for us. Now, it's getting sold off and developed. This has kind of caught us by surprise.

Joel Quenneville

Milan's such a big offensive player for our team, so guys will have to assume some of that responsibility,

This program will be the most comprehensive and broadest program for stem cell research training in the country and I assume in the world,

There are things you've always assumed - or heard your entire life - and some of them turn out to be just plain untrue.

Giulio Natta

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.

We're 10 years removed from being the most notorious police department in the United States. So people will assume this is just a continuation of that. But I don't think it is.

We've seen each other once and you can't assume both pitchers are going to have the same games they did last time. I think both of us are going to play more small ball than usual.

We have relied upon certain flows over the last 20 years. If House Bill 800 passes, we have to assume the minimum.

When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.

Kevin Hart

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Ken Dychtwald

Many people wrongly assume the most important issue is money. While it isn't trivial, it's way down the list.