Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Moores

Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Marcus Williams

Some people assumed I would go from 12 to 20, that is what I was hearing.

Abby Cohen

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.

Mike Stoller

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

Wayne Coyne

It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.

John Davis

I think people would have assumed a 50 percent cut in roaming charges over three years. If they did it by the end of 2007 -- a year quicker -- then it's a little bit negative.

Dale Jr

I think everybody saw it coming, and I'm glad he's back. Last weekend was a good start for us. I was real proud of my team. People assumed that we'd just go through the motions in these final 10 races, but honestly, Tony Jr. coming back has kind of put a jolt in our enthusiasm. He's bound and determined to win some of these races and remind everybody what they've got to deal with next year.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

Carmelo Anthony

Regardless of who it was, I was going to the hole. They weren't going to stop me that time. I was either going to get a foul or a dunk.

Jamie Dixon

Records on the road usually aren't as good as records at home. We want to be undefeated on the road well but we had all five games down to the last minute. They could have gone either way.

Marty Barnes

Really you don't want to reflect too much on either the wins or the losses after they happen. At the next practice you have to start getting ready for the next opponent.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

Parliament will reconvene either on Wednesday or Thursday when possibly a new government will be formed.

F. Schumacher

Park Rapids runs an unbalanced line formation trying to outnumber you on either side of the line. We have to be disciplined on defense.

Amy Taylor

Part of that patience is we're looking at the post more. And our posts are either finishing or getting the foul.

Carla Sullivan

People haven't been complaining. Either they don't care, or they know it is right for the students.

Michael Chertoff

People have got to take some responsibility for preparing themselves, ... That means you get yourself three days' worth of food, three days' worth of water; you get yourself flashlights, batteries, either a hand-crank radio or a battery-powered radio, a first-aid kit precisely because you know it's going to take 48 to 72 hours to be able to fully service everyone.

Victoria Chan

People have to either lose weight, or we have to use longer needles.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Scott Norton

Reasonable' probably doesn't mean if you were out a whole semester you make up a whole semester.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Steve Sparks

Patrick's a little embarrassed by the signs. But it shows what his being at UK has meant to our community.

John Street

People have to go vote. Polls don't mean a thing,

Lisa Busch

State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.

Barack Obama

Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.

Marcus Giles

That'd be cool, ... and it'd mean one of us is going to the World Series.

Bob Hadfield

Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley.

Elliot Krieger

Our relationship with the union, once the order was put in place, has been pretty good,

M. C. Escher

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Shaukat Aziz

Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way,

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Barry Lopez

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

B. F. Skinner

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

Bill Crawford

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Big Pun

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Sophie Hannah

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Janine Turner

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Tracy Austin

I think there are more questions in the first week than we've seen in a long time.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Mark Norell

There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

Christine Johnson

Our students need to see role models. We feel very strongly about that.

Hans Blix

Our role is not to humiliate the Iraqis.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

Andrew Cohen

I think it's unfortunate that we don't spend time talking about our role in the world.

William Daley

I think that 'strong' and 'decisive' are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president's role is to play the second position.

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are going to reactivate the role of the PLO.

Kevin Lowery

Our roots are here. We're not going anywhere.

Billy Corgan

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

Bharati Mukherjee

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Charles Olson

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Ayn Rand

Money is the root of all good.

Bryant H. McGill

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

Bryant H. McGill

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

Alan Lightman

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.