Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Howell

It came as a big surprise, to be honest, ... We all assumed Luke (England's highest-ranked player) would pick Paul to defend the title, but Luke didn't think that was necessary and thought the man on form would be the pick.

Rabih Alameddine

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

John Fogerty

I always assumed I would meet him. I never got to touch base from my heart to his heart, and I'm sure that millions of us felt the same way.

Teller

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

Caleb Spencer

He definitely has assumed the leadership role on and off the field. He took control of things this summer.

John Thompson

He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job.

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Stephen Sondheim

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

Michael Ramsey

Picking the right jury is the single most important issue (to the trial), and I think we were happily surprised.

Anthony Marra

I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.

Stephen Frears

I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.

Karen Abbott

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

Kevin McHale

I would love to do film someday, but I think we are all so happily in tune with 'Glee' that we are sticking with that right now.

Lizzy Caplan

Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so that was kind of interesting to me.

Gianni Paladini

If a man is happily married why would he look for another woman?

Joel Edgerton

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

Hugh Jackman

My private life is actually pretty dull. I'm incredibly happily married. Mine is a one-story story, so I don't think I'm going to be hounded about my private life.

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Robert Bennett

I would say so. It's part of my life.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Stanley Hauerwas

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Mark Fuhrman

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.