A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym! Shawn Johnson
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. E.B.White
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money. Shaquille ONeal
People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. Jackie Joyner Kersee
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour. Lincoln Child
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. Ernest Hemingway
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? Annie Dillard
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all. Max Brooks