Quotes About Premise

Much like an investment broker, the architect is being allowed to play with their client's money, based on the premise that their activity will yield an acceptable return on investment.

We call these self-evident truths, such as the law of fair play, axioms. An axiom is a premise or starting point that is taken for granted before acquiring any additional knowledge. Axioms are self-evident beliefs that anchor the rest our beliefs.

Top Gear' is all about the cars. We've got humour in it but the unique premise of the show is it all starts with the car.

Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.

The media's job is to question a premise.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

I'm just drawn to something that has a good story. 'Outcasts' didn't do so well, but I really admired the premise behind the show.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

I think if you accept the Left's premise of a living Constitution, then you accept the Left's premise of a living America, meaning that they think that America's history is rotten.

As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.

'The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise would work.

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.

'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.

Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.

I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.

A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a Western is.

When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details... what we try to do, on our best days, is be informative, explain how a process works.

If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film's premise is in line with my beliefs.

The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.

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 disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

That so many people can derive so much pleasure from such a revolting spectacle," he said to me when he returned home that night, "almost makes one doubt the very premise on which democracy is based." But he was pleased nevertheless that the masses now thought of him as a good sport, as well as "the Scholar" and "the Greek.