Predicted Quotes

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I was in an all girl group at school when I was 12, and an OASIS cover band when I was 14.

- Fabiola Gatti

When I did "Sesame Street" (1969), Elmo was not the worldwide phenomenon he is now. I understood Elmo was special, and I said that the only way I would do Sesame Street was with Elmo. Kevin Clash, the young man who did the voice for him, was a very sweet guy and I predicted Elmo`s meteoric rise to fame way in advance. I am a trendsetter without knowing it. Two years later the Elmo craze began, but I was ahead of the curve.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then I`ve always gone on my instincts.

- Anderson Cooper

There will definitely be some traffic from this worm this evening. But I don`t think there will be the widespread damage that`s predicted. I could be wrong. But I don`t think we`re going to see anything like we`ve heard about.

- David Perry

How can you predict anything? I wouldn`t have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I`m very pleased with the manner in which everybody has responded.

- Dennis Archer

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

- Evel Knievel

We didn`t lose as many lives as had been predicted although we`re still in the process of finding those we lost.

- Kathleen Blanco

There is money for the west sewer plant. The key point is that everything is on target for us to meet the Oct. 4 predicted date to award a contract to construct the west plant. There`s a whole series of hoops that we have to jump through and yesterday was one of that series. We`ve cleared that hoop and we`re still on target.

- Steve Davis

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

- Walter Lang

I don`t think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

- Robert Morgan

What we`re having here isn`t a demand constraint. It`s a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.

- Richard Lee

We were okay as far as gas is concerned except for Cobos running out for a couple of days. Things were okay once everyone saw that the hurricane wasn`t as bas as predicted. Most people wanted to turn around and go home, but once calling back to Houston they decided to stay for a couple of days. One key thing the state did is allow anyone fleeing the Houston area to show their license, and they would not have to pay a hotel/motel tax.

- Johnny Johnson

What`s interesting is you could have showed me an article about 20 years ago in The Washington Post that predicted that Ronald Reagan was a lame duck.

- Ken Mehlman

That`s where the oil is. It`s the best place to look for oil in the United States, and there`s predicted to be more oil there than any other place that we can look for oil in the U.S..

- Mark Rubin

It`s an unpredictable runaway chemical reaction no one predicted.

- Robert Wright (actor)

Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn`t be predicted by the state.

- Akarika Dawn

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women`s liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

- Al Hubbard

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

- Alana Beard

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

- Allan Milbradt

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

- Allie Zazzali

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own `accuracy.`

- Amy Clark

Though he pulled a bit of a surprise when he showed up wearing a hat for Round 1 of the recent PGA Championship, when thunderstorms were predicted. ``I`ll wear a hat if I think it`s going to rain or get windy.

- Angela Lawson

Unfortunately, so much of it is exactly what happened. We predicted that people would be trapped in their houses. Sitting on roofs,

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The major problem people are having is the one we predicted all along: that it`s not very well supported.

- Antonio Maria Costa

(Hospitals predicted an influx of patients after the closing of medical facilities in New Orleans and other areas affected by the storm. Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock was awaiting two patients from Tulane Hospital in New Orleans, but the head of the Little Rock hospital said his facility expects more.) If the city is out of commission for the next two months, what's going to happen to all those patients? ... We're trying to scratch our heads and imagine what may be coming in the long term.

- Art Gonzalez

The old joke is the index has predicted 12 of the past 10 recessions.

- Art Kehoe

It`s something you dream of, ... You`re thinking it would be so cool to be down there. Now, could I have predicted it to be like this? I didn`t know when or where, but I did believe one day I`d play in an environment like that.

- Barrie Baker

Economists are pessimists: they`ve predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions

- Barry Asmus

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn`t happen today.

- Brock Blassingame