Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walt Whitman

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Wilson Mizner

I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Neal Stephenson

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

John Ziegler

I was looking forward to waving it and making a lot of noise. But now we're keeping a low profile. I don't see any reason to add fuel to the fire.

Greg Garcia

Knock on wood, we'll do enough episodes to get through that list. But the other thing that happens on our show is Earl adds things. Just because he's trying to be a better person doesn't make him perfect.

Ron Prince

James Franklin is a bright and accomplished young offensive mind. He is hardworking, intense and creative and clearly fits the mold of what we are looking for here at Kansas State. As important as anything, though, James is a man of integrity and I am very excited to announce his addition to our staff.

James Burkhard

Katrina really increased the anxiety about gasoline prices in the U.S. and calls for conservation only add to that,

Peter May

Kathy has broad experience in the mortgage insurance industry. She is very familiar with the territory and knows all of the major customers. She is a great addition to Triad and the Northeast Sales Team.

Kevin Colbert

Just looking at our history, we never have been (real active) and I don't think we'll change from that. We don't anticipate that. We'd like to get as many of our own guys back as we can, and add to it as necessary, and then go to the draft and get players that way also.

Laurey Stryker

Just last year is the first time that housing costs lost us a few candidates. I think the thing that we'll have to do over time is to pay higher salaries; that's the only way to address it.

Dave Frohnmayer

Keep in mind that we are only halfway through the season, and there remains a lot of football yet to be played. So it's impossible to address the dozens of hypothetical situations with the BCS standings.

Jack Sommer

Just refurbishing the old Aladdin, maybe add some parking garages, it would have been a poor use of the property. From a real-estate perspective, a mixed-use development, including gaming and retail, was necessary.

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.

Morris Gleitzman

Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.

Tom Kayser

I'm working under the assumption we'll have replacement umpires on the field. If we have a settlement (on Tuesday), we might be able to get (the regulars) there and to the cities in break-neck speed, but it's not that likely.

Michael Cooper

I'm working under the assumption that I'm here for this road trip. I don't look any further than that. ... Obviously, (wins) make you stay a little bit longer than (losses).

Sheldon Harnick

I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work.

Todd Boyd

In general, there is an assumption that crime is such a part of black and Latino culture, that these things happen all the time. In many people's minds it's regarded as being commonplace and not that big a deal.

Jon Arnold

In a lot of cases, you can't make the assumption that mom and pops are going to be the problem, because the larger companies tend to have a lot of automation.