Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

We're surprised that A-B doesn't seem as certain about their team's success, but we hope they'll reconsider because there are so many NASCAR fans who would enjoy watching this wager unfold. We assumed the folks at Budweiser would have more confidence in their driver's performance, especially given that so many experts and fans expect Dale Jr. and his team to be so strong this season.

Leonard Mlodinow

We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.

Saul Perlmutter

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

These years we've assumed fingerprint evidence was infallible. The scientific evidence shows it's not and a palm print is even less reliable than a fingerprint.

Miranda Lambert

I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.

The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.

The Road Runner divestiture is an obligation we always assumed we would face, and the decree proposes both a schedule and process that are fair and feasible.

The softening of the U.S. economy has had an industry-wide effect on business travel demand, ... While our 2001 business plan assumed a challenging financial environment, the economic situation has deteriorated more than expected.

The study reveals the highly collaborative relationship between managers and support staff. These roles have become increasingly interdependent, particularly as administrative workers have assumed greater responsibilities. Both groups are willing to go the extra mile to create a healthy, productive dynamic that enables them to meet business and professional goals.

Reggie Bush

I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it's because when the Xbox first came out, the controller was so different that you just automatically assumed that it was harder to play, and I always just stuck with that notion.

The celebrity reviewers are people we contacted who, on a genre-specific basis, we assumed would have an interest in doing this.

Arn Tellem

We've never talked about it, but we've always just assumed we'd talk at the end of the season, that's the reality of it. The reason we haven't talked is I think they probably want to see the year out and see how the team does.

Mike Shanahan

They just assumed the guy was down. You gotta tackle them. You have to have three or four guys hit him. They just assumed he was down.

Jennifer Tilly

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Steve Spurrier

Everybody assumed that was the greatest college football down there. I think college football is excellent all over the country right now.

It was assumed that, after the Late Heavy Bombardment let up, comet impacts ? which were then 1,000 times more numerous than today ? delivered Earth's water.

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

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's good those coaches got promoted to the jobs they did . . .. I think the team rallied together and everyone assumed individual responsibility, and the win is good. It's gratifying.

It's generally assumed that primary relationships are more critical to a women's psychological well-being than men's, but this is not the case,

It shouldn't be assumed there is a true conflict of interest. To me, a conflict of interest implies that someone's judgment is going to be influenced by this relationship, and that is not necessarily the case.

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

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

Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?

That's when happiness became an assumed entitlement of all human beings. Unfortunately, that puts a great deal of pressure on us.

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.

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.

Susan Vreeland

For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!

Kate Winslet

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.

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.