Famous Quotes & Sayings

For him to get on the podium is really significant. But they all have to realize there are no givens. You still have to keep working. You can't assume just because you do it as a sophomore, you'll also get up there the following year.

Aishwarya Rai

for me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn't even educated in India because of the way I'd speak. And they'd be like, 'Have you studied in India? Do you actually speak English out there?' and, I was like, 'This is so interesting that so many people know so little about my country.' and this is exactly what I wanted to do when I set out on this little mission in my head.

I'm not going to assume anything over anybody. It's girls basketball, on any given day it can go any way.

Galileo Galilei

I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended,

Philipp Meyer

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

Kathleen Blanco

I just assume that all of my people are keeping me legal and that the policy is in keeping with what other governors have done and that we have never abused those opportunities,

I love words ... so I can be a sucker for eloquence. Sometimes I assume that there is substance behind the words. Sometimes I am right. And, sometimes I am wrong.

I never believed this was a federal offense. Whatever he did, and let's assume he did what the jury said he did, this was not a federal crime.

In future years we have to assume that there will be somebody out there who will be willing to do it.

Jimmy Wales

That's a big error to assume that there's any tension between the two, that it's experts vs. community. There are experts in the community.

That projection assumes the growth rate in the county will slow down. Washington County will still be one of the major growth counties in the state and nation.

It's not going to be an overnight sensation. My concern is that people will assume they are now free of insulin shots.

Everyone has assumed it's going to be a perfect scenario, ... The market has departed from most traditional levels of valuation.

Christina Hendricks

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!'

Everyone assumed the Internet would be the thing and somehow the Internet would damage their business,

Patrick Byrne

Everyone always assumes that this is all about Overstock, but it isn't. It's about Gradient.

It's interesting to me that the questions assume that because I'm Asian-American and Pacific islander that I'm an outsider. But I'm not an outsider to the culture. In hip-hop, you either have something or you make way for someone who does. If you don't have it, step out and learn. I feel I've had to earn my stripes.

Dan Johnson

It was kind of a weird thing. No one out on the field knew what was going on. I just assumed it was his hand because of that ball he knocked down.

It was more than I ever thought I would see, and I just assume never see something like that again.

Klaus Kleinfeld

Nothing is sacrosanct and nothing is carved in stone so nobody should assume that they have the right to live with us for ever.

It was a gut check. I thought, 'Let's assume the market comes back and we actually survive this. What will the fruits of survival be?

Sathya Baba

This is the very first time that a world conference is held of the persons devoted, while the Incarnation is present before every one, with the Body assumed for the purpose, bearing the Name that is chosen for it by itself.

They're like my kids and we are a real family. Everyone assumes my son is going to play basketball but there is a chance he won't be able to do a lot of things. We won't know until he's about a year-and-a-half old, but he is great kid. He's brought us all a lot closer together.

Tom Renney

They really care about where this team is going. They have an ear to the past and what's happened here, but they've also really assumed the responsibility for where this team is going to go - the effort we're trying to make to gain respect back from our fans and from the NHL.

They're not from a Communist country, and so folks tend to assume they're just economic refugees. They don't have the kind of political clout that a lot of other groups have. And frankly, I think the color of their skin has a lot to do with it.

John Taylor

There's been a lot of hand wringing going on because of what the cost outlook is for game development for the next set of platforms, ... I think there's a growing feeling that in order to build and launch a game you're going to have to start at the $20 million mark - $10 million to build the game and $10 to launch it with a big splash. In order to be able to make any money on that kind of investment, you either have to assume some substantial unit numbers, which are hard to do in the first year or two of a platform's existence, or you've got to raise prices.

If we bring in the 747-8, then one should assume that we will replace what we have today, namely about 30 planes, step by step.

If we assume the higher sum of money here, it would put MP3.com out of business. It's very unlikely that they would receive financing to pay these damages.

Bill Clinton

If we want the world to embody our shared values, then we must assume a shared responsibility.

If you are a competitive investor, you've got to assume the Fed will succeed in re-igniting the economy.

If you're coming at them from a bunch of different directions, I assume that's difficult for a defense. that'll always wear you down, if you're on your heels trying to figure out where they're going to come from next. I felt like we did a good job of that last game.

John Schuerholz

If you assume the worst, you have to also assume with modern medical technology he'll be fixed and may very well be ready for the next several years.

Joseph Campbell

If you assume these 17,000 guys go away and never come back, it'd make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week, I don't see it making a difference. They don't even have a strike fund. I'm a long way from getting worried.