Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James dyer

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.

John Kane

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.

Sherron Watkins

It was just assumed that I was wrong. It was a blatant lie.

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.

Robert Davies

This individual assumed I was one of the derelicts on Bourbon Street.

Norman Schwarzkopf

We knew they had them, ... We had some very definite locations, particularly the production facilities... As far as the front-line ammo depot and where they might and might not have been located, we didn't know, and therefore we assumed every single one of them had chemical weapons.

Abby Cohen

Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent from 20 percent and a rise in core inflation.

Frederick Pollock

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Martin Freeman

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

Julie Kagawa

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.

Gena Rowlands

I like to think that Mrs. Asher is a lot stranger mother than I am. I hope that that's true. She's one of the strangest characters I've ever played.

Nicki Minaj

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Aidan Gillen

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Tony Ciriello

Boy, what a great guy he was. He went around and talked with everybody and shook their hands. He was a real treat.

Tony Stewart

Everything that I had heard about him and everybody that I talked to about him said he was a good kid and somebody that they thought had a good future. I wanted to be a part of that.

Jerome Williams

Eventually, everybody is going to have to pay their own bills.

Pete Prisco

Besides, are there really any secrets in the NFL anymore? Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Joe Gibbs

Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.

Mike Hackett

Being a scientist, I don't want to get everybody excited and say this is all wonderful. But following two small plantings on less than half an acre, this spring we'll find a 40-acre piece and see what happens.

Juan Gutierrez

Big surprise for me because I don't know that everybody is going be here you know.

Ryan Harris

Everybody knows that we had 11 yards rushing last game. That's just unacceptable. That's nowhere near where we want to be as an offensive line. We've come a long way.

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Thomas Reed

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Suzanne Collins

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

Phil Keoghan

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Lana Turner

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

John Ratzenberger

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Martin Luther

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.