Premise Quotes

167 Premise quotes by 155 unique authors

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of… — Stephen Jay Gould
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there… — Steve Coogan
But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't. — Steve Coogan
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. — Unknown Author
The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that… — Emeril Lagasse
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen… — Roy Moore
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military,… — Barack Obama
The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. — Leon Panetta
The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We… — Rick Perry
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work… — Amy Poehler
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. — Ivan Reitman
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a… — Sidney Sheldon
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology.… — Matt Taibbi
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods… — Roberto Unger
Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the… — Thom Yorke
My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more… — Ravi Zacharias
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent. — Evan Williams
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. — Leo Tolstoy
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the… — Jim Goad
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept… — Ezra Taft Benson
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. — Derrick Jensen
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other… — Erwin McManus
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred… — Haruki Murakami

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