Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Hewitt

Assuming that Nike gets her from head to toe that would be Nike equipment, Nike clothes, the whole bit she would have nothing but Swooshes. That's the number she would automatically get from just signing. Overnight, she would get $10 million to $12 million. It depends on how the contract is structured, but that's what I'm hearing.

Alberto Manguel

Every text assumes a reader.

Paulo Freire

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Tom Glavine

Let's be honest, Pedro for five innings is better than no Pedro at all. With the way our bullpen is going to be structured, having a day off Tuesday, it might not be so bad to have him out there for only five innings -- assuming he's healthy and that's the most important thing.

James Patterson

Assume nothing, question everything.

Tom Hansen

We're going to start pressing a lot of it this week ... assuming people are willing to talk.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

Scott Shane

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

Jacquie Fernandes

Everything that happened in the past we've let go, we've moved on. Ever since Central last year, this is what we've been waiting for and it's finally here, so we're trying to prove ourselves all over again. Show everybody that we've got a new side and just try to work to get back Central.

Tom Cross

To double the size of the company, we'd only need about a 4 or 5 per cent success rate, compared to about a 70 per cent success rate we've had in the past.

Stephen Atkinson

Everybody gets 78 per cent of what they've put up.

John Dick

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

Rachel Nichols

There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

David Dreier

We want the Y2K problem to be the last crisis of the 20th century and not the first crisis of the 21st century.

Tim Deal

I estimate that Apple's server revenue is less than 1 percent of the company's total revenue.

Mark Godwin

We estimate that could keep 200 people from spending the night in jail.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Dirk Brockmann

This is a very good estimate of how humans travel.

Jake Brace

That's considerably less than some external estimate I've seen.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Mark O'Connor

The music is addictive, ... When it's going well, you feel like you're hitting home runs all night.

Carol Davis

Schools we don't hit this year, we'll start with next year.

Stan Hyman

The scouts who have been looking at (Shore) for three years have been waiting for this, he's been hitting all his spots recently. This is his third promising showing in a row.

Tom Watson

I've worked with it. I took three putts and hit the first one about 3 inches fat. The second one, I hit it; and I hit the third 15 inches fat. That was it.

Raja Bell

It was there for the taking. Once I hit my first 3-pointer, everything started clicking.

Susan Butcher

I've been pretty tired. It's hit me pretty hard.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Thomas Murray

I lost everything, mister, everything -- credibility, business,

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

James Billups

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

Michael Charles

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Taylor Schilling

The Notebook is one of my favorite love stories.

Scott Eastwood

If it's a good romantic movie like The Notebook or...The Longest Ride . No, I don't know. I thought it would be great to work on one of those genres and we made a pretty darn good version of one of those. There are some that come off as sort of cheesy, but this one was pretty good.

George Carlin

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

Jay-Z

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

Sarah Caldwell

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

Linwood Barclay

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

Kenneth Anger

I try to remember dreams, and occasionally I'll make a note or two in a notebook if it's something extra interesting. They do mean quite a lot to me, and they don't happen all that often. In other words, I don't have some kind of loud, Technicolor dream every night. But a few times a month, I'll have a rather interesting dream. They're mostly visual - oddly enough, I don't have much dialogue in my dreams. They just don't speak.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Brian Regan

I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.