Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because,… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they're only where they are 'cause the rich… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly.… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We can't unify around a single premise! Name one thing the Republican Party today could unify on. You can't. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
There's always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I think my one of my strengths in standup is my ability to adlib. I do all my best writing on stage.… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a fantastical premise, and then I place it in the world we know. Or, really, it places… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel… — David Kim Copy Share Image