(457 quotes found)
“I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.”
John Mayer
“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.”
Alan Bennett
“If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.”
Shahrukh Khan
“Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.”
Wendy Wasserstein
“It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.”
Colley Cibber
“It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.”
William Faulkner
“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.”
Eric Hoffer
“I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.”
Taliesin
“After that, everybody-assumed I must be a terrifying person who lived in a cave. We both tried to make other kinds of films, but we couldn't get any money. They were offering us money to make scary movies, so I went off and made The Hills Have Eyes , and Sean went off and did Friday the 13th ,”
Wes Craven
“It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.”
R. D. Laing
