Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Hollins

We can't even think about being in first place, because you saw Washington lost two games last weekend. One game and we're tied. You got to bring it every night, you can't concede any game or just assume that we're going to win it.

I tell kids to doubt anything you see online. If you're communicating with strangers, assume they are a 60-year-old man drooling. As savvy as kids are, they tend to be very trusting and naive.

Elaine Pagels

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

Buck Showalter

I think he's ready to assume that mantle. I think he's capable of matching up with the other guys. That's a pretty lofty area, but he's one of those guys.

I think he has now bought himself some time to withdraw slowly. But that assumes everything goes as planned next year.

Emily Mortimer

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

It allows people to assume some risk. Because they're willing to take on this risk, they're rewarded with a much lower price.

I suppose Steven Bradbury is the only one left standing. You would have to assume he'll get it.

Oscar Wilde

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

I think it would be fair to assume that he has left.

Just because criminal charges have been filed doesn't mean we can get complacent and assume the molestation charges will get him locked up. We're sure the prosecutors will welcome any new witnesses.

Joe Flaherty

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

That's the problem with forecast modeling. It assumes current conditions and normal weather throughout the period. That can go out the window.

That's the point of having a CHL (concealed handgun license) in Texas -- potential criminals should assume everyone is (carrying).

Terry Wogan

I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'll always assume it's indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it's true - that's the kind of person I am.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the case for any of us.

Larry Brown

He's got such a good work ethic. We'll have to see what the future brings for Brian. I assume he's going to follow in (his father's) footsteps.

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

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.

Residents and workers still await a proper toxic cleanup and medical response to the World Trade Center attack. That weak track record and the troubling new federal policies described in this report do not bode well for the future. Americans should assume that in any future national disaster, human health and safety may not be protected.

Jennifer Beals

I think that is one of the things that makes watching him kind of fascinating, that we are watching everybody, this person that we assume is a demon.

Mary McAleese

It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.

Wendy Wright

It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. A 17-year-old could buy it for a 13-year-old girl. Or worse yet, a pedophile could purchase this drug for his victims.

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.

Kim Cattrall

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

Katharine Weymouth

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

Kathryn Prescott

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.

Katherine Waterston

I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

Karen Joy Fowler

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

People watching the Chinese trying to generate a soft landing think that, if it doesn't work in five minutes, it must not be working. We're not seeing immediate results, but I think it's incorrect to assume that, a year or a year and a-half from now, we're not going to see some of these effects. We will.

Bill Brandt

People who assume that this is a done deal are making a mistake, ... It's a starting point, a structure. ... In many ways, for many of the parties in this case, it's 'game on.'