Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tagliabue

Kind of the assumption is that we can work through this in the next four months, and I'll be ready to move on by the end of July.

Antonin Scalia

I would think the normal assumption is if one person wants that search excluded, that search is excluded.

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.

Randall Osterhuber

It is a big assumption that the weather of the future is going to be represented by weather of the past.

Peter Kelly

I think the biggest assumption about Vista that will likely be untrue is that it will be dull/dowdy and/or fail to effectively compete, at least for objective customers, with Mac OS. Revitalized competition in the OS space is going to be great for all customers, in any case.

Jim McCrery

We're operating on the assumption that we will be pulling together something in September for a vote some time this fall, ... there is no consensus." ()

Andrew Hill

It is probable that most contracts are not renewed at Yale, ... There's no assumption of moving on down the line, for example there's no assumption of tenure. That's how it is.

Steve MacCarthy

There is an unproven assumption underlying this legislation that students lose a lot of credits when they transfer to another institution.

Roxane Gay

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Tony Russa

I would think the biggest misconception about our club was we have this powerhouse offensive team.

Karl Hobbs

I would think most teams will try to go inside from an offensive standpoint because we will be down an inside defender. I think that will be the biggest challenge.

Warren Beatty

I would say the biggest changes -- it has caused me to get into the present tense, try not to go too far into the future, not too long into the past, ... When (the kids) are jumping on your stomach, making a trampoline out of you at six in the morning, that's fun for me. That's present tense.

Matt Mathes

Katrina is undoubtedly the biggest problem for the country right now. We had to look at national priorities.

Keith Morris

Just try to be healthy and enjoy Alaska. That's the biggest thing.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Annika Sorenstam

Just the scoring part, which is the biggest part. I mean, I'm working on everything and at least the last week I've been hitting it really well. I'm hoping that it's all turning around. I really am.

Ken Cohen

I would say that profitability did contract in 2005 as a result of increased competition. Many shops are working for less money but making up for it on volume and hopefully that is a trend that won't continue.

Tim Maluga

Kate wanted a higher level of competition, which I was totally understandable. Also, American University is in D.C. and has a much higher ratio of international students.

Bruce Shumaker

I think it'll be a good look for everybody in the state and very good competition. There's some very good competition.

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Marcia Gay Harden

I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.

William Carey

It can't do any harm. Any form of competition will even the market out. It might lower prices.

Calvin Ayre

I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is a good thing for the players,

Brian O'Connor

He wants the competition, he wants the best. He wants to play big-time football. He's maybe just a little too small, a little too slow. But I think he'll contribute, maybe on special teams as a freshman. If he makes it, he'll make it by out-working everybody.

Nick Saban

Gus is going to make us a better team at the quarterback position. His knowledge and experience that comes with being a veteran will help the development of some of our younger players. In addition, he is familiar with our system and he'll create competition at the position.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Tony Leon

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

Avery Johnson

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Seth Berkley

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.

Jared Bernstein

I think the fingerprints of a faltering job market are all over this report. We've got more people working, but they're failing to get ahead.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Bill Swank

The purpose of the inspection program is to make sure that if there are poles that are deteriorating, we go out, identify them and make sure the ones that are tending toward failure are braced or replaced.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Hanna

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Howard Stern

I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, 'I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million.

John Huarte

I was just as surprised by that as I was when I won the Heisman. It's a great honor and it's nice to know that even so many years later people still remember what I did in football.

Chris Eyre

I was lucky, I had a Verizon phone and it had great service all through the storm,

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Maurice Garner

Kenyatta just had a great season for us. It might have surprised a lot of people, but not me because she has such a great work ethic.

John Davidson

I think in the near term, over this summer, the market is likely to stay in this range. There's a lot going on right now.

Michael Slater

Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,

Seth Shostak

Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of 'Star Trek,' these would be M-class planets: life-friendly oases where biology could begin and bumpy-faced Klingons might exist.

Pamela Falk

Historically there have been compensation programs, not restitution. In other words money, not give them back the property. And that's most likely what's going to happen.

Tim Ruskell

I was a likely target, ... It was really no big deal.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Mark Collins

I think this particular time, it's more likely we'll be successful.

Ben Halliburton

I think we are likely to remain in a trading range for some time.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Kimberley Nixon

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

Richard Dawkins

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

William S. Burroughs

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

William S. Burroughs

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

Chan Gailey

If I worried about all that kind of stuff, I couldn't be in this business, ... This is like being in most any other profession: You're not going to please everybody. My objective is to do what's right by the program and what's right for these young men. Other than that, I don't have a responsibility.

Dan Johnson

The first and most important objective was to step up our recruiting of international students,

Ed Wade

I think we need some space at this point,

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Richard Dawkins

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.

Richelle Mead

Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?

Renzo Piano

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Meister Eckhart

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

Maggie Stiefvater

She couldn't make it untrue.

Bertrand Russell

All religions are both harmful and untrue.