Guessing Quotations

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

We're basically guessing how the BLS adjusts for Katrina, which is an even bigger stretch than we normally have to do.

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.

Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Carrie: Smoking is the only thing that keeps me balanced.

Shaffer had us guessing all night. They just pretty much beat us up big time. I was very upset with my team. We didn't play like we were capable of; we played scared.

Maybe he's a little jealous. But I was the guy who had respect for him until he started all this BS about me. He's on the radio for a reason. He doesn't know what's going on in the dressing room ... he's just guessing and that's what bothers me.

Obviously, this was the tallest building in town. I'm guessing it was six or seven stories tall. It had a massive head house where it picked up the grain. There was a pit outside where vehicles dumped grain. In the middle of the building was a big elevator that lifted the grain to the top of the structure and then moved it to the proper storage areas. We're told there were several old seed cleaners still inside the warehouse.

On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.

I don't care where they line me up. I just want to get out there and get after people. Hopefully, I can get things down and we can find some ways to keep people guessing where I'm coming from.

Given our situation and the number of guys we need - and I know we've already got a couple of commitments - I'm guessing it's going to be the end of May before we have our roster ready.

Goalies are either going to be the first star because they have to stop so many chances or it's going to be a long night. Once a couple get by you, you start guessing a little bit, and it sort of compounds things. But Al is mentally strong and bounces back. I thought it was a real good show of character. It was 6-0, but there were some timely saves that could have swung the game.

if someone were to call the stock from you, you wouldn't have to go out and buy it -- you could just deliver the stock. The great thing is it's a contract so you know what the price is going to be and there's not a lot of guessing there.

He hasn't run in a long time and I've never run him before. I'm guessing he'd need to get a race in him to get on his best footing, but he's ready to get started.

He doesn't give you anything twice. It's a guessing game with him and, today, I was always guessing wrong.

He doesn't throw anything twice in the same spot. It's like a guessing game, and we were guessing wrong today.

He made some great saves throughout the game. We had a couple of guys all alone on him. ... He kind of had our shooters guessing a little bit. He played a great third period, a great game ... but a great third period.

He made some great saves throughout the game, especially in the third period. Sometimes it's tough when you have a goalie you don't know. We had a couple guys all alone on him, and he kind of has a unique style. He had our shooters guessing a little bit.

He's a classy guy. I'm guessing (he retired) because from a pitcher standpoint, the backup catcher has got to catch Timmy and that represents a whole new set of challenges.

His whole point ? and I'm just guessing ? is that he wants everybody to be prepared at all times. If you know you have the opportunity to start, you're going to be a little more excited to play, you're going to be more hungry in practice.

The owner was sitting up in the stands watching. I'm guessing he thought I brought you in on a two-day waiver to try out.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

I was like most people, just guessing when he'd finish.

It comes down to really guessing the right play at the right time. The defense, the will and then raw talent. Those are really the true factors when it comes down to it.

I think you're going to have people withdraw money for good, ... People are going to say, 'I'd rather bet on the New York Giants because I have a better chance of guessing the result than of knowing what some management team is up to.'

I think before ownership was trying to influence him too much, and now after the free agent signing period, they realized what an asset he is, and I'm guessing they're going to give him more control.

I was able to get into a little bit of a rhythm there. The biggest thing was getting ahead. Once I got ahead I could start to mix in off-speed stuff, keep them guessing and off-balance. In the first inning I'd be 2-0 and everybody in the park knew I was going to throw a fastball. Once I settled down it made things a lot easier.

I think she has done so much for the sport, and she has been a champion for so many years, I'm guessing they'll give her a spot on the Olympic team.

Junior is a little bit up in the air right now. We don't know exactly, the extent, so I would be guessing if I made any kind of prediction on what his status would be, relative to the next week or so.

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

That was a nice way to finish. It's a difficult par-three and the wind was pretty hard to gauge and to be honest I was kind of guessing at what club to hit.

Michelle has done so much for the sport and been a champion so many years, I'm guessing they will give her a spot on the Olympic team. It's important for the rest of us just to focus on our own skating.

We're all guessing at this point, basically throwing darts at a number of possible scenarios.

You are guessing a little bit, but you are taking into account how many customers there are, how fast that customer base is growing, how fast is demand, and can they meet that demand. In a sense you have to look at the methodology and whether you agree with the assumptions that the analysts are making.

We've kind of been on the more melodic page for the last few years now. For anybody that knows the band and the last couple of records, or just the last record, they're going to get it. It's not going to be a complete 180 or something out of left field, to where people are going to be like, 'Oh, wow they did this with their music. I can't believe that.' There's some unpredictable stuff still, and we like to keep people guessing with the songs and keep things fresh.

With the 'Three Ks,' it is a guessing game to see who will take first each race. It is nice they have each other to challenge every race.

We were struggling. It was easy to see that their pitcher was doing a great job. It looked like we were guessing a little bit. She was throwing strikes, and we're looking for balls. She's throwing balls, and we're looking for strikes.

Today's workout took a lot of guessing out of the game.

You'd have to research it, but I'm guessing that was a season-high for them. They made the shots. We did not.

We played all man-to-man tonight and they had 11, so it's a bit of a guessing game right now.

We actually had a very mild flu season last year much milder than normal. But every year you really go into a bit of a guessing game,

Wal-Mart is coming to Jefferson, ... Don't let anybody kid you. I am guessing right now that if the (Wal-Mart) people in Bentonville (Ark.) don't already know the election results, they will know first thing in the morning and they will trot out the old annexation paperwork faster than Brian Calhoun can get a first down.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

You have five innings, that's all you get here, ... After that it's a guessing game. The shadows are not easy to hit. You can't see the spin well, then halfway through it, you lose all of the spin and then even the ball.

Finding a good cleaner that will consistently treat you like a valued customer shouldn't be a guessing game. Having become an Award of Excellence cleaner, Holiday Cleaners is proof that quality cleaners do exist and now, the customers know where to look.

We all know this is a guessing game. It's humans evaluating humans, and you know what? We're not infallible, and they're not infallible either. If there's one thing you can say about those of us who do this for a living, it's that we know we don't know.

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

We got a little too caught up in his off-speed stuff. He really had us guessing the whole time with his location.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.

This sort of second guessing (in the market) will continue until we actually see what the real impact of the situation is going to be on the U.S.

At this point I am guessing that the Fed is pretty committed to raising rates in January but after that all bets are off.

Earnings have been much better than we expected, so I'm guessing the Nasdaq situation is purely a result of Dell cutting its outlook going forward.

Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse.

There's no second guessing how valuable he (Jobs) is. Putting him in a new context ups his ability to influence things.

There's no more important test than Vegas. We've got quite a bit of guessing to get through the next part of the season, and that's why this test is very important.

There's only been one spokesperson on the dollar. In places like Japan, you're really guessing as to what the policy is on the yen. No one else speaks for dollar policy - it's a fact. That's why the dollar has had a three-year run against the yen.

The whole sector is going through the roof. Everybody is guessing what could be the next target.

Right now, we have no clue exactly what we're going to get from the state and exactly what we're going to get from the local. It's a guessing game on our part.

Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.

That track record has made the latest New York guessing game as speculative as a Nasdaq investment, and a slew of names have been floated in recent months, only to come back to earth.

You've just got to keep him guessing and hopefully we can do that. It's going to be a tough task for us but it's something we're definitely looking forward to, though.

You sit down and say, 'OK, what is it that our team needs right now?' It's not like we're guessing on people who haven't been around for a long time.

You're just guessing without a soil test. There's a more scientific way to determine what a lawn needs.

You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than to check out the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship Q/F featuring Birr against Lusmagh next Saturday evening, with the 'throw-in' at 4:30pm in Banagher. No prizes for guessing who you'll be shouting for.

This film is a bit adventurous, ... You have to keep guessing what's going to happen next, and the ending is quite unexpected.

They're too sick to speak, or too short of breath to say anything. You know, it's kind of a guessing game. It's like playing charades,

They're the defending national champions, so I'm guessing they are probably a pretty confident group. I know that they play with a lot of intensity.

They had us jumping around and guessing a little bit. When you can't stop it, it's tough to know what to call because then you start trying to guess with the coach. When you do that, you're going to get in trouble." ()

There is no transaction, no agreement on the table ... It's much too early to start guessing about regulatory structure.

This is where I was actually standing when the tornado came over and you can see where it passed by and hit this water tower and see if you can notice how it knocked the paint off the water tower; that was freshly painted. Three tornadoes that came within 10-minutes of each other and I'm guessing time.

It's earnings pre-reporting season, ... I'm guessing that a lot of the worst is behind us is going to come out in commentary. Unfortunately it is going to follow numbers that are just as bad as the first quarter.

It was a very well-rounded offensive game. There's nothing I like more than to see a lot of players involved in the offense to keep the other team's defense guessing as to where the attack is going to come from.

It says to me that people are interested, and I think that's really good, because I'm guessing there'll be more people in November,

It's a blessing to be able to play college football and not guessing how fast you have to run in the 40 drills or whether you were good enough in the shuttle drills, having guys poking at you.

It's a guessing game. You've prepared for some guys, then all of a sudden they release them. Then you have to prepare for some new guys. You have the unknown. Obviously, every team is going to have some new wrinkle. What is that wrinkle? ... You just have to be prepared to get to the sideline and adjust.