Famous Quotes & Sayings

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

Some people assumed I would go from 12 to 20, that is what I was hearing.

Let me give you an example, ... I worked at a television station in Minneapolis back in the 1980s and part of the 1990s. During our first years there, our two boys got in fights at school. You know what caused it? Some of the kids assumed that if we were from the South, we were members of the (Ku Klux) Klan.

I think people would have assumed a 50 percent cut in roaming charges over three years. If they did it by the end of 2007 -- a year quicker -- then it's a little bit negative.

I think everybody saw it coming, and I'm glad he's back. Last weekend was a good start for us. I was real proud of my team. People assumed that we'd just go through the motions in these final 10 races, but honestly, Tony Jr. coming back has kind of put a jolt in our enthusiasm. He's bound and determined to win some of these races and remind everybody what they've got to deal with next year.

Wayne Coyne

It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.

Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

We have always assumed that data stored on mobile phones is safe. Today we use our mobile phones to send sensitive data, store important information and even digitally sign on major documents. There is, therefore, greater threat to data security on mobile phones today.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

Mark McKinnon

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

James Nasmyth

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

Marcia Cross

Well, it was very odd. And I, I just assumed this is what comes of being 42 and single. I don't know if they just needed to find a reason why I wasn't married.

We had always assumed that embryos created from eggs donated by younger women would not have these defects, ... But just the fact that we are seeing this high rate of abnormality suggests that we should be using (PGD) more.

Mike assumed the role, with a young team, that he had to assume. He was sensational on both ends. I think some of these younger kids will play better Saturday night after getting a taste of playoff action.

Stephen Hawking

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

Tibor Fischer

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.

The King has become a failure in his mission for which he had assumed power.

a minimal, not a maximal agenda, a starting point, not the end. This basic commitment must be assumed by all the governments of the world.

All of the plans have assumed that people have cars and they speak English. If you forget the population in your planning, the population will ignore your plans.

The market has some power today. Continued lower energy prices and the belief that the economy is rebounding off a poor fourth quarter are assumed to be behind the move today.

Despite intensive searching, I never saw the giraffe. And by 1994, the sightings stopped coming in, so I assumed it had died, either at the hand of man or beast. I never stopped looking though.

Jasmine Guinness

People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

People assumed that's why I said 'Let's not buy the park.' That's not true, ... How do you justify spending that kind of money when so many other things are needed? The bottom line is that there will always be people who dislike me for whatever reason and who will have conspiracy theories.

People assumed I was going to from (Nos.) 12 to 20, but like I said I didn't want to go in there and not play. That might have been up in the air. I might have been in a situation where who knows if I'm going to play. I want to come in and play.

Raisins are perceived as sweet and sticky and any food that contains sugar and is sticky is assumed to cause cavities.

Maurice Cheeks

At practice today I didn't know whether or not they were going play and I assumed they were going play. So I just made a decision that they're not going play.

Corporations that had assumed they were immune from these kinds of crimes are now in a position that they can be held accountable in U.S. courts.

This individual assumed I was one of the derelicts on Bourbon Street.

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

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.