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.

Rex Garrett

Steel's been hard to get after (hurricanes) Katrina and Rita. They really delayed our substation projects.

Sam Endicott

Our flight was super delayed from London. There was a minute where we though it was only going to cancel.

Barham Salih

Please do not delay -- the time to make firm commitments is now. Honor your pledges now.

Chris Nicely

I think they are trying to spread it around, to keep everybody happy and so they don't get delayed by a bottleneck in one operation.

Buddy Bell

I think the two rain delays didn't help matters.

Chris Bell

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

Dr. Larson

I think those people may have already been starting down that pathway toward Alzheimer's, and you can delay or reduce the rate of that pathway proceeding.

Sarah Feinberg

I think the 10th District (of North Carolina) sent him to Washington to work for them, not Tom DeLay or Karl Rove.

Abdul Rahim

I do not see that happening either from the Indian side or from the Pakistani side. A day's delay is like an year to me. They (the governments) raise our expectations and never keep their promises,

Anthony Chan

I think it's fair to say it'll be the least important or most distorted jobs report in memory. Maybe both.

Elliott Walden

He's by Distorted Humor, and we always want to support our own stallions.

Neal Asher

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

Geddy Lee

If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.

Brian Ferneyhough

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Paul Wolfowitz

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

Hugh Johnson

These numbers were highly impacted if not distorted by Hurricane Katrina.

Steven Wood

The trade figures are distorted by the effects of foreign re-insurance on the World Trade Center. Nevertheless, international trade is contracting.

Bob Johnson

In the 16 years I've come here, I have never heard so much uninformed, misleading and distorted testimony on a bill.

Boo Duncan

Our western team was phenomenal and pulled us ahead. I was very disappointed in how the hunt team lost, especially with the mental lapses, but I was very proud of how the western team performed. That was what pulled us through.

Brad Anderson

Just being out there hunting is really cool,

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Rachel Brown

That was just part of the life, hunting and fishing.

Bruce Sutter

I was planning a hunting trip next year if I didn't get in this year. I didn't need to be around the phone, I can tell you that.

Bill Gottschalk

I don't have time to fish. I take my time off in the hunting season.

Bill Maher

Helen Hunt survived, Demi Moore survived, but (

Chris Carter

Hunting whales is like hunting tigers (or) gorillas. New Zealanders regard it as unjustifiable,

Steven Friedman

Some of these images from New Orleans have looked like Mozambique.

Lorrie Brown

I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

Gary Payton

I think (Stern) is just trying to get our image back.

Danny Aiello

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

Dan Gilroy

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

Sidney Jones

It could be a way of buoying up his image (to) his followers.

Derek Brewer

I don't think people want the image of an unfair playing surface. I think that is the administration's issue. We all want to be at home, we want to be at our house, but if this keeps everyone happy, then we're happy.

Francis Bacon

For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the understanding (which has been done hitherto), but the understanding is to be expanded and opened till it can take in the image of the world

Charles Stiles

If they get a message from a sender that has images and links enabled one day, and another one the next day where they're not, they tend not to trust that so much, or think there was an error. It sends an unclear message to the consumer.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Shelden Williams

People have different paths in life. Quincy's led him to a different place. What matters is how you play.

Terry Stotts

Our turnovers led to their transition and we didn't do much to stop them.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

O. Singh

I am a sacrifice to my True Guru, who has led me to see my unseen Lord.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Larry Klukas

He led us in scoring on Thursday and in rebounding Friday.

Steven Reinprecht

He led the way, that's for sure. I think he showed what a special player is.

Jim Edwards

He led our schools through the integration process.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Bill Richardson

I did not utter one partisan word in that committee.

Eric Williams

If they're going to want to speak in a partisan way, fine. But don't do it as a church.

John Thune

We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.

Ken Starr

With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,

Donald M. Payne

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Michael Bennet

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

Bernie Sanders

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Maxine Waters

The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's not to be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue.

William Harvey

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Ricky Williams

I talk to Ronnie two or three times a week,

Rick Carlisle

I thought Ronnie struggled. At times he went away from what we were doing as a team and that disappointed me.

Larry Bird

I think enough is enough. I think Ronnie will do fine, but not here.

Jim Mattox

Ronnie Earle had visions of grandeur, ... He was using it as a steppingstone.

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is!

C. S. Lewis

Man must endure his going hence.

Bette Davis

She did it the hard way.

Bill Vaughan

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

Jose Andres Puerta

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

Tim Ceglarski

If we win tomorrow they'd be hard-pressed to keep us out.

Bertrand Russell

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

Alan Dershowitz

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

Leonard Lauder

No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Anthea Turner

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Diana Gabaldon

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

Chinua Achebe

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

Michael Cunningham

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.

Terry Pratchett

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.