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.

Jerome Kramer

It's always important to bear in mind what a small tip of the iceberg any author is. When an author with some cachet gets behind the issue, the reasonable assumption is that the impact would be exponential and would get the conversation going.

Kat Edmonson

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.

Milton Sapirstein

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton Friedman

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

Neal A. Maxwell

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Jim Johnson

He seems fine. He is going to play quite a bit, but he seems fine right now. He has not complained about it, at least to us. So we are assuming he's going to be ready to play 20 or 30 plays.

Willie Randolph

He's going to start to step up his program a little bit. He knows he has to start getting ready. He didn't actually say, 'I'm going to get on the top (of the mound),' but I'm assuming that he might. He probably will. We'll see.

Harry Clark

I think the market is going to have a good decline early next year because of all the broader issues. To an extent, it doesn't matter who replaces Greenspan, assuming it's not a shocker.

Bill Roe

I think you'll probably see an extension of this rally next week, barring any surprises over the weekend and assuming the ISM number Monday is positive.

Jim Stinson

I don't know that they took any gas, but I'm assuming they did. I don't see any other reason to drill a gas tank.

Richard Whately

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

Greg Zandlo

In order for her to sustain this goal and without depleting her principal, her investments must earn an average of 11.8 percent. If she would invade the principal for two years (until Social Security and the pension kick in), using $1,100 a month, the remainder of approximately $311,314 must earn an average of 10.5 percent, assuming $ 600 monthly from Social Security and pension.

Tom Richards

I think our government officials are assuming that everyone one in New Orleans are idiots.

Francis Crick

By using polymers of different composition and assuming a triplet code one can deduce limited information about the composition of certain triplets.

Robbie Amell

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Richard Hofstadter

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Benjamin

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Truman Capote

I remember things the way they should have been.

William S. Burroughs

We should exterminate all rational thought.

Vinnie Jones

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

Woodrow Wilson

We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

William Shatner

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William J. Clinton

People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.