Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Mount

The state's water policy and all its plans for restoration of the delta are predicated on one flawed assumption -- that the delta is a fixed landscape and will look the same for the indefinite future. And it won't.

Alain Badiou

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Ariel Levy

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

John Taylor

The price point is certainly an impressive value statement, ... I think the going assumption is you have to pay about $10 a month to be involved in a gaming community like this, so to offer a one time fee of $49.99 is going to make it a lot less challenging for kids or teens to get permission to play. I think it's a key price point position.

David Lawson

We spend a lot of time teaching them about collaboration and in establishing one coaching approach. While everyone has his own coaching style, we want some structure to the coaching. For example, the primary assumption is that every operator wants to work safely. The job of the coach is to work with employees so they work safely. The emphasis is on working collaboratively, rather than dictatorially.

Douglas Adams

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

Albert Einstein

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

Anthony Bourdain

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

Tim Fitzpatrick

My assumption is that ... they ... found out that PC World had named the 7170 to its top 10 list in 2005, so the choice was easy for them.

Lee Berger

These birds would have been after the most vulnerable members of the group.

Norm Brunswig

These birds used to nest on all the major shorelines in the state, but what's on those shorelines now homes, golf courses. These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

Alan Feduccia

The whole thing had become circular -- birds are dinosaurs, so whatever we find on dinosaurs that looks like a rudimentary feather has got to represent the origin of feathers.

Tedor Whitman

These are the wintering birds from Canada they think this is the warm spot.

Jinx Scogin

This is going to be an ongoing need. The goal is to keep these birds healthy until they can be reunited with their owners.

Sam Hamilton

This is an exciting opportunity to better document the existence and learn more about this magnificent bird. Now that the leaves have fallen, conditions have improved for seeing and hearing the birds. Finding birds is a critical part of the recovery process and we're hoping for some exciting news.

Mark Beam

And with the numbers of birds that we have, we are going to have some really good hunting through the rest of the year, we just have to do our homework, go where the birds are concentrated and do the work every day.

Mark Norell

Dromaeosaurs are really interesting because they are so close to birds in evolution, having feathers and other, similar attributes.

PJ Dietschel

Especially if they don't have feathers. The birds we worry about, they're not fully feathered. The youngsters are still fluffy downy.

Stephen Cutler

Destruction of documents is obviously an extremely serious matter. Documents are an essential ingredient in our investigations.

Paul Boyce

Nowhere in any of these previous 2-1/2 years worth of investigations and documents has there been any reference to lions being used in detainee operations.

Saddam Hussein

These documents are forged. I have never done anything to a youngster.

Yuriy Yekhanurov

This is another reason for signing a document on Ukraine's accession to the WTO.

Lee Feinstein

The U.S. strategy is to water down the document rather than to strengthen it.

Rebecca MacKinnon

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications.

Paul A. Volcker

Everybody down the line kept very meticulous records because Saddam told them, 'You get the surcharge from everybody,' ... So they all wanted to document how they got the surcharge.

Roy Baker

Every student signs a document saying they won't be participating in these types of activities.

Peter Sellars

Documents that were top secret and never meant to be seen are now set to music.

Jason Calacanis

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

Rick Mazer

A number of those folks have moved over here.

Tim Sam

South Medford is something else. For them to be up there in the Les Schwab with Lake Oswego and have folks see them and still come away with South ranked No. 1, that says something right there.

George Cox

Texas has a lot of good newspapers and it's always gratifying to receive recognition from this group. I'm very proud of our winners, as well as all the other newsroom folks who work hard every day to put out our newspaper.

Tom Galloway

I see so many older folks get up there on ladders and try to do it themselves. They should keep that ladder in their garage.

Pat Ivey

The workshop is not open to the public, but lots of folks from the public will be taking part.

Nicole Andrews

There will not be a situation where folks in Rhode Island are having to scramble to find a new place to live by March 1.

Larry Hall

We had a waiting list then and we hope to have another one soon. Even though we lost some folks over the years, that group remains our largest.

Kenneth Miller

Curiously, these folks don't do research, they do public relations and lobbying,

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Steve Rixon

I've not seen a series like it in a long time,