Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Howell

It came as a big surprise, to be honest, ... We all assumed Luke (England's highest-ranked player) would pick Paul to defend the title, but Luke didn't think that was necessary and thought the man on form would be the pick.

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

John Owen

We expect to report an operating margin between 2 percent and 4 percent, and that should bring us to a net loss for the full year. And for full-year, we are using an assumed fuel price of $1.92 (for a gallon of jet fuel). So, basically, $1.92 in the first quarter and an average of about $2 for each of the remaining three quarters.

Jim Johnson

He has stepped up and assumed the Number 1 duty and I can't say enough of the performance of his play and the level of his play.

Susan Moores

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.

John North

In that mindset, it never occurred us it would not be a success, ... The historic value is so great, and also our mission was so clear, we never thought about it not working. We just assumed people would embrace us.

Chris Stapleton

I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.

Robert Jordan

I was like 'We're going to need you, keep your head up.' It was more him getting comfortable. Everybody knows he can play ball.

Charles Rhodes

I was letting everybody know I will be back next year. No NBA for me.

Ronnie Anderson

Kitchens are forevermore an integral part of the home. Everybody wants larger kitchens and they are willing to spend more money on better appliances.

Mark Fulghum

Kids killing kids. Everybody loses: Someone loses a son, someone loses a kid because they're gonna go to prison. Many, many times, totally innocent people are the victims and they don't have anything to do with what's going on.

Dave Meade

Jaclyn had a good game for us. Everybody played well and got a lot of playing time.

James Devlin

I would see everybody outside playing one-on-one, so I went out and started playing. I've been playing ever since.

Judy Rose

I would say to them like everybody else that loses their jobs, look for better employment.

Jason Elam

Just seeing the team chemistry, how everybody got along, how everybody interacted, that was a lot different than it has been the last five, six years.

Jim Simmons

He was a leader. Everybody liked him. He has a great personality. He's never met a stranger.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Ronaldo

I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

Rick Riordan

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Rian Johnson

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

Willa Cather

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

Walter Benjamin

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Yukio Mishima

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

Willie Nelson

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Anne Bishop

I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

Sienna Miller

I'm going straight to my mum's place. There's nothing going on between me and Daniel. We were in a movie together two years ago.

Nate Parker

When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Paul Duca

For April, it's as big as it's going to get. You have to dethrone those guys. They're the team to beat. They've been there 13, 14 straight years now. So this is big. Take them any way you can get them.

John Goebel

There?s been a lot of misinformation and we want to get a straight story to people.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Christopher McQuarrie

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

John Cleese

At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,