Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't own the personal hubris to assume that any book I'm writing is going to get published,

Spencer Grammer

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.

Siri Hustvedt

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

Parents should not assume the role of a short-order cook, ... That is, if a child chooses not to eat what's offered, it's not up to the parent to offer them something else.

Our special teams unit is pretty much intact from last year and that is a huge positive. Murphy showed tremendous improvement last year and was the reason we won the Cumberland game and I look for more good things from him. Briggs will assume the punting duties as well as handling the returns for us.

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.

The (past) studies that reported a negative net energy assumed one should ignore co-products.

Brian Kernighan

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.

Bill Hader

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

Wole Soyinka

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

Courtney Gains

I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.

Emma McLaughlin

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.

Emma McLaughlin

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

Edmund White

The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

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

Cate Blanchett

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

Christian Borle

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

Sasha Cohen

When a skater gets older, they become more mature, and they can assume more responsibility for their skating, ... That's how I've evolved. I know what works and what doesn't, and Mr. Nicks is a great coach for me.

Logan Marshall-Green

If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.

Lindi Ortega

I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

Leon Bridges

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

Lee Myung-bak

Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.

Lee Myung-bak

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

Sylvia Kristel

People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

Plato

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Martha Beck

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Oliver Ellsworth

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

We don't know yet what the long-term effect will be. You can assume the others will need to respond quickly to this news.

We're not there yet but it's not too soon to assume this scenario.

Peter Russell

We're not sorting through the garbage and looking in garbage bags. This is just a visual check and we're going to assume what we see on top represents the garbage beneath.