Premise Quotes

167 Premise quotes by 155 unique authors

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an… — Amy Waldman
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein
I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My… — Jack Canfield
What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the… — Marina Sirtis
The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent. — Dennis Weaver
The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time.… — Chris Crutcher
Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there… — Robert M. Gates
I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it… — Nick Kroll
I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can… — Elizabeth Emken
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head… — Rian Johnson
A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and… — Marc MacYoung
If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone… — Al-Ghazali
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise… — Frederick Lenz
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization. — Robert Brustein
That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the… — Giles Fraser
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise… — Austin Farrer
It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original… — Robert B. Laughlin
I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single… — Nicolas Roeg
First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and… — Pope Francis
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective. — Jonah Goldberg
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which… — Michael Gove
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay. — Daniel Goleman

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