Famous Quotes & Sayings

When a paper comes in from South Korea, you have to make the assumption that they are telling a true account. It is not a system for policing. It's a system for detecting whether the science seems good. It cannot be a system for policing.

We didn't document any breeding. A lot of folks had an assumption there would be a lot of nesting birds seen during the summer.

Robert Scoble

If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.

Adrienne Rich

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Agatha Christie

Assumptions are dangerous things.

We started with the assumption that it was a software-related problem, but we are looking at both equipment and software, and we just can't pinpoint where it is.

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.

Joaquin Phoenix

You know, the press has kind of imposed upon me the title of Mourning Brother, and because I haven't been vocal about it, the assumption is that I'm holding onto this (stuff) that's just not there.

Henry Giroux

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Our assumption was this was a legally taken bear in a hunting season in another state. It just wasn't disposed of properly.

Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology spending will not show significant improvement probably for another six months.

People make the assumption that their cost of living will go down when they retire, but if you have a lot of health care issues, your cost of living could go up.

State and federal forestry officials granted that money with the assumption that they were dealing with legal entities, which they were not. We need to make sure there are no liability issues.

Michael Nutter

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.

That assumption is based on if there are no further rains; if there are further rains, the situation will be compounded and will get worse, so that means we could have a worse flooding scenario.

I think there's an assumption . . . the education stops when you leave the classroom.

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.

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.

Paul Tagliabue

Under our league policies, owners are not supposed to be talking about re-locating their team during a season. We've got a specific set of guidelines on that. It's a policy that was negotiated with the U.S. conference of mayors, and my assumption is that every owner is complying with the policy.

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

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.

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.

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.

Douglas Adams

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

Douglas Adams

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

Anthony Bourdain

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

If we were to conduct our projection now, the assumption would be for higher oil prices than in the March projection.

Richard Rogers

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

Lighter-than-usual trading volumes, due to the Assumption Day holiday in Europe, facilitated the single currency's gains,

Of course, the assumption that Pakistan is in a position to exercise complete influence is flawed.