Famous Quotes & Sayings

One thing that he said was the assumption that a sniper was a single person could not be further from the truth,

My assumption is that ... they ... found out that PC World had named the 7170 to its top 10 list in 2005, so the choice was easy for them.

My assumption from talking with Ken in the interview process is that the investigation will go forward. I think he feels confident that there is a good team of people in place who are working on it and he has several more months to be part of the investigation before he reports for duty out here.

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

I always go under the assumption that players are going to play until I hear differently. I'm sure he'll be ready to go.

Jean Kerr

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind

Sue Miller

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

If we hadn't had a recession a year ago, and we were watching the fall in employment, a stalling manufacturing sector, falling bond yields and falling stock prices, many people would think we were entering a recession. There's an assumption that the recovery will continue and get stronger next year, when in fact it's possible the economy's tipping over again.

Chet Faker

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

Gwen Moore

By the eleventh grade I realized with horror that my assumption of attending college was no more than that - an assumption.

Andy Roddick

But I'm through and I'm going to keep battling. A lot of people are under the assumption that it's easy to play well every week and it's not.

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

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

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.

It is difficult for us to convince people that yes, this is possible. I have to make the assumption that we are not going to make those goals.

The American side deliberately distorts facts related to a visit to Minsk by U.S. and EU representatives. We proceed from the assumption that Belarus and the United States have relations of their own, determined by a whole set of different factors. That's why we suggested separate visits. We hope our American and European partners will demonstrate in deed and not in word their constructive attitude towards cooperation with Belarus.

The assumption with Trivial Pursuit is never that one person would know all the answers, because it would be a very short game. The assumption is that one person should know half the answers.

The assumption that when you go out to rescue a bunch of poor, black people, that they are going to be criminals, is racist. The only plan they ever seem to have for poor people is a jail plan.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions

The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.

The assumption that everybody wants a bundle is flawed.

The assumption right now is that wild birds are vectors.

The assumption is that you're comfortable with the Internet and e-mail already.

The assumption is that you don't have as much to view as other folks do.

Paul Tagliabue

The assumption is that we can work through this in the next four months. If not, I'll stay on.

The assumption is that energy prices will be moderate. But energy prices can also be very volatile.

The assumption is that a lot of the problems that we're seeing in the semiconductor industry now are related to the economy, and any move by Greenspan to shore up the economic situation we're seeing is going to be very beneficial.

Brent Sutter

That was a two-hour, 45-minute hockey game. There is always the assumption these rules were put in to make the game more entertaining, but that is not entertaining hockey. It's not something you want to see in the game. We can't let it dictate how we need to play, but it makes it difficult to coach.

My client didn't know (Campbell) was dying from a heart attack. He's not a medical doctor. He made a logical assumption that this person is passed out drunk.

Steve Spurrier

Who knows what's going to happen? I've never gone on the assumption where we have a winning season this year, we're going to have one next year. We could get clobbered next year.