Unclarified Assumption Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Jack Black

#2. The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.

Giles Milton

#3. I am Psmith. I sub-edit.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot.

Hillary Scott

#5. I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.

Lemony Snicket

#6. Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

Audrey Niffenegger

#7. Religion is a distraction from true education.

Richard Dawkins

#8. I just got the will to win at life.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#9. As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

Kathryn Schulz

#10. I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Richard M. Nixon

#11. Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Mitt Romney

#12. Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#13. It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess

Norman Mailer

#14. How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?'
The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

Kim Newman