Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Scott Skiles

I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night.

Christine Callies

This is only under the assumption that the full tax rate cuts go into effect.

Paul Tagliabue

At this point you have to proceed on the assumption ... that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire season,

Alex Gilady

This is an assumption but a very serious assumption.

Ernie Allen

This is a massive problem, and the numbers are growing. We know there will not be a positive ending in some of these cases. We hope the number is as small as possible. Meanwhile, we're working under the assumption that these children are out there.

Ernie Allen

This is a massive problem, and the numbers are growing, ... We know there will not be a positive ending in some of these cases. We hope the number is as small as possible. Meanwhile, we're working under the assumption that these children are out there.

William Warlick

They've baked in $50 (per barrel) crude oil and $1.48 (per gallon) jet fuel as their going assumption for fuel expense.

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Stephen Bernstein

Holding him without due process is improper, and either ICE or the prosecutors should explain why.

Richard Shim

I think it's a smart move, one that was probably due a long time ago, but they were just so stubborn.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Rick Meckler

I think that the idea of never-ending, short-term-rate increases no longer seems as likely to people. But I would not be surprised if the Fed still increases, but signals to the market that they are prepared to stop increasing if the economy slows due to the hurricane.

Takehiro Sato

We look for a rebound due to the recycling of oil money, such as in high-ticket orders from oil-producing nations.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

David Sloane

I had extensive telephone conversations today with representatives of the Mets, Orioles and Rangers and a face-to-face meeting with the Marlins due to the proximity.

Wayne Shepperd

I hope that I can offer a good idea. I'm told that I get a good idea every 10 years, so I'm due for one soon.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

Richard Baxter

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Winston Churchill

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Richard Migliore

It has been kind of wearing on me. I got through the holidays OK but then it was like, 'OK, I want to get back to work.' Sure, it's frustrating but I have been through this before.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.

O. Henry

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Joe Strummer

I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do ... The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Scott Clavenna

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Keith Ashdown

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

Caroline Knapp

Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,