Envisioned Quotations

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.

The world of 'Terra Nova' as we joined it... there is a certain amount of prosperity there, and in fact I would say that I was a bit surprised when I first got there to see how it had all developed and how sophisticated the colony was - I had envisioned it being a bit more Swiss Family Robinson, but that wasn't my call.

As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn't always come out exactly like you envisioned it.

With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

Only these days do we have the technology to do what some strategists envisioned in the 1920s,

Nobody came up with a plan for having this many refugees in our county. We are being asked to meet needs that nobody envisioned even a few days ago.

Nobody really thought this mine accident would have a happy ending, but no one could have envisioned how much pain the families would suffer.

My family's grown up here. I've done a million things here that I'm really proud of. (And) 99.9 percent of the time I've been treated better than I ever envisioned that I'd be treated. So I'm not looking to go anywhere. I'm not looking to run away from anything. I'm not looking to find greener pastures.

Pope John Paul II envisioned this as the conclusion of the exhibit. He wanted people to touch the hand to feel close to him.

Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.

Right now I'm trying to get to the level I was playing at last season when I should be at a level two times that. This year I'm struggling. So far I haven't been having the success I pretty much envisioned for myself over the summer. But I'm trying to be patient. It's all I can do. It's a long season.

I don't know what to tell you. I never could have envisioned something like this. I thought we would come out like gangbusters. We talked about being the aggressors, and I don't know if we had an aggressive spurt in us tonight.

My initial take is our development is well under what was envisioned in the master plan.

She envisioned a place for performing arts and a rich future.

He just always envisioned a world where people respected each other.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

For years, Elvis Presley Enterprises and the Presley family have envisioned a project like this. We are thrilled to be able to move this concept forward.

I get goose bumps just thinking about it. I never envisioned that.

I envisioned having a nice reunion, but I had no idea how great it would turn out.

I envisioned myself as one of those guys who spent 20 years flying the same aircraft. I didn't plan on flying several types of helicopters, it just kind of worked out that way.

I envisioned putting in a second seat. Then I could experience everything and I wouldn't have to worry. Then we started talking, drew it up and presented it to (IRL president) Tony George in 1999. He thought the idea was good as long as the cars were real.

For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.

I don't think we've accomplished anything. In fact, I'm seeing the problem is even bigger than I envisioned a year ago.

To finish the season on this note is not how any of us envisioned this.

What we envisioned is a place where the kids can study, and we'll have a place to watch videos of them on the field, as well as a place for them to store their stuff.

What we had envisioned was to break it down into four or five smaller retail units. Many people have come up and said they would love to see another food store in there. We're not sure, with Wal-Mart and Giant right down the road, if a smaller food chain would want to open.

We've envisioned it as an artist's studio, although it can have other uses. But it certainly isn't large enough for anyone to live there.

I always envisioned her looking like a spindly blonde, but she looked like me.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

When they signed him, they envisioned him as a slash-type of player. Once they saw his mobility and arm strength, they said 'This kid can play.' He could be starting at corner, safety or linebacker for that team.

When he came out of McKinley High School, I don't know if anybody in this room would've envisioned that this young man would be sitting here right now as a top five projected pick in the NBA.

He's been a great lead-off hitter for us, just like I envisioned he would be.

If inflation gets out of hand, the Fed will have to raise interest rates more than is envisioned right now. Oil and energy can do it.

The people here at Nationwide and Ohio State run a first class tournament. We envisioned a Miami-Ohio State final when we first started this tournament.

Lions Gate is thrilled to be instrumental in bringing this momentous story to light, ... We could not have envisioned a more dynamic nor enthusiastic team than we have found in David and John for this project. This is the kind of film that exemplifies the daring, high quality entertainment produced by Lions Gate throughout its divisions.

Lions Gate is thrilled to be instrumental in bringing this momentous story to light. We could not have envisioned a more dynamic nor enthusiastic team than we have found in David and John for this project. This is the kind of film that exemplifies the daring, high quality entertainment produced by Lions Gate throughout its divisions.

Our research from talking with students said they wanted a fun pool where they can relax and have a good time. That's why we envisioned a leisure pool with some lap lanes. You can swim in the leisure part of the pool. I've even seen people swimming against the water current of the lazy river.

I saw it a little darker, a little different. I envisioned it a little more insane, and a little more devious. I thought I was going to be the devil.

Jim Dickinson is a musical shaman. He not only understands and knows music, he knows and understands the people who make it. It was kind of freaky sometimes, because he would seem to know what we were thinking musically before we played it, then he'd articulate it in a way that made more sense than how we envisioned it.

I think there's a fantasy around technology, that technology is being promoted and envisioned as larger than it really is. I try to make people think about the limitations of technology in a way that isn't obvious or didactic.

Our three branches of government have become like an unstable chair, a three-legged chair. The founders could not have envisioned how much money and special interests would corrupt the political process. Giving us Americans legislative power will put forth the fourth leg of our stool and make it stable.

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

I was upset then. I was pretty naive. The Cardinals drafted me, and I envisioned playing my whole career there. I didn't know how long I would be in Florida.

It feels good. This is what we envisioned happening at the beginning of the season.

I think the price caps need to be given a chance to provide the fullest benefits we envisioned when we passed the bill into law. I'm hopeful, over a period of time, that consumers will benefit and realize significant savings.

I think this is what the Yankees envisioned when he was there. I just don't think he was prepared, at that point in his life, for what he was facing there.

I thought Chad Jones played like we envisioned him playing all year. He played in spurts. He had offensive rebounds and played with reckless abandon. He played hard, which was good.

It came down to what's beneficial for the league to get the most teams in the tournament. But I don't think they envisioned a league with eight teams in the Top 25.

It changes everything. They're two guys with the same athletic makeup. They're blocking shots and getting rebounds. Second-chance points are something that's really hurt us this year. And when those guys are both playing like that, (the opponent) isn't getting any of that. It really does change a lot of things for us. This is really what we had envisioned at the beginning of the season.

You just have no idea of what you are about to see envisioned here in Winona,

We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... only one company that will remain nameless turned us down.

When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself swimming in the Tigris to cool off after reporting in the city the caliphs called Madinit al-Salam, the City of Peace. A year later, I realized I wouldn't be taking any midnight dips - Madinat al-Salam no more.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

When I first envisioned this book back in 2002, I had no idea it would become the massive project it has become. It has been so long since local residents had the chance to participate by sending in family histories.

While early home networking initiatives were driven by end users, the whole-home networking model envisioned by most service providers puts control of home network resources firmly in the hands of the network operators themselves. This dramatic shift in perception will have huge and permanent ramifications for the entire home networking supply chain.

We envisioned it to be the kind of store we'd hang out in if the place wasn't ours.

We have stated over and over ... that Congress needs to fix this asbestos problem, and we agree with that and have supported that for a long time. If the FAIR Act is passed into law, our agreement preserves the public policy benefits that are envisioned under the FAIR Act. But if it's not enacted, we have an alternative solution.

That's the same kind of stifling defense we played against Hawaii. They know they're capable of it. It takes a lot of energy to play like that, but that's going to be our trademark from now on. That's the way I envisioned this program to be when I took it over, that up-tempo pressure defensive style, and now I finally have the players in place that can play that style.

There are a lot of capabilities out there that were not envisioned when the law was passed.

What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

The reforms on the table really get to the meat of the matter, which is changing an institution envisioned for the post-World War II period to work in a very changed world. The challenge now is that after so much attention to expanding the Security Council, this package sounds like leftovers - when it's really the meat and potatoes of reform.

We always envisioned 'High School Reunion' as a franchise, and we wanted to move quickly into production of the next installment.

We always envisioned it to be a big dance production.

We're getting real close to having the team on the floor that we envisioned at the beginning of the season. Hopefully, soon, we'll have everyone healthy.

We spoke with her agent, explained what we envisioned for the role and waited to find out if she might be interested. Her agent came back with an offer. I don't remember exactly what it was now, but I know our budget couldn't afford it. He asked what we could offer, and we made our offer.

We're in a position that we envisioned ourselves being at this time. Now we've got to take care of business, continue to improve and do the things that got us to this point.

Today's settlement again demonstrates this administration's commitment to secure major pollution reductions and to achieve the benefits envisioned by the Clean Air Act.

What part of the FEMA plan envisioned that the first responders in Hancock County and much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast would have to loot the local grocery store and loot the local Wal-Mart in order to feed themselves, would have to loot the local Wal-Mart in order to have a change of clothes?

We're talking about students who may not have even envisioned themselves as college-bound learners. One of the things we try to accomplish is to give them this validation -- that college is a real possibility. It's not going to happen by chance; you need to work very hard, but it will happen.

The rule, which severely restricts the types of patients that we are able to treat in our facilities, is having a far greater impact that was originally envisioned by anyone.

It was tough, man. I thought I had him. But I beat (him) to the spot. I envisioned myself going to the free throw line. Obviously they (the officials) didn't see it that way.

To many employees, Vista, the Windows update, exemplifies the company's struggles. When the project was conceived half a decade ago, it was envisioned as a breakthrough: an operating system that would transform the way users store and retrieve information. But the more revolutionary features have been dropped, and Vista will arrive three years after researcher Gartner Inc. originally predicted that it would ship. Worse yet, they say, nobody has been held accountable. 'People look around and say: 'What are those clowns doing?'' says Adam Barr, a program manager in the Windows group.

The original script envisioned this men-on-a-mission story like 'Guns of Navarone' or 'The Dirty Dozen,' with 12 people instead of 120, ... But the actual events were pretty spectacular, so we told Miramax, 'You've got an amazing piece of material here; we should try to tell it as accurately as possible.'

To be drilled on your home court is not how any of us envisioned this. Coming in here with two home games and home-court advantage, we thought we had a great chance to move onto the Western Conference finals. ... I have to give Van Chancellor and Houston a ton of credit.

Originally, we envisioned this ship would be designated for one of our European brands. However, Carnival Cruise Lines continues to perform at a very high level and based on the tremendous consumer demand for its products, we now believe that this specific tonnage would be best utilized for Carnival's North American market,

Without i.Shop this level of integration would not have been practical. Both R.O. Writer and Delphi have embraced these standards that allow sharing of customer, shop and vehicle information between front and back shop applications. When we first implemented the i.Shop standards, this is the level of integration and efficiency we had envisioned being possible.

Dennis Roland has come so far it's unbelievable. As a freshman, he really did look like Bambi right after Bambi was first born, all spindly legs. We were hoping that he would develop into something, but I don't think we envisioned him growing into what he is now.

As in the past, our objective is to maintain the integrity and shot values of the golf course as envisioned by Bobby Jones and Alister Mackenzie . Players' scores are not a factor. We will keep the golf course current with the times.

A time is envisioned when the world was not, only a watery chaos (the dark, indistinguishable sea ) and a warm cosmic breath, which could give an impetus of life.

Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about strippers, but being young and having somebody like a director like Michael see me, and see something in me, and take a chance. And have a process like we have had.

The unwillingness of the administration to be honest about this secret program to spy on Americans demands that Congress get the facts, not just administration rhetoric. The truth can be determined without compromising national security. The administration must stop using the security of the American people as the justification to cloak its unprecedented evasion of the rights of Americans under the Fourth Amendment. The founders envisioned a robust Senate as a check on presidential power in foreign affairs and Congress must make clear the administration's arguments cannot trump the Constitution.

Ads were designed to grab attention. This ad was envisioned as an affordable place for families to vacation year round.

This is not what Larry Johnston envisioned when he took on the job, but amid relentless competition there was just a very long path to profitability.

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

I never envisioned half of what we've done. Going through what we went through, I just wanted to get back to the point where we had competitive games - not even winning, just competitive games.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

I never envisioned this. You can dream about it, you can hope it would happen, but especially coming here from the Red Sox after what he established there, I didn't see that happening.

I'm a visionary. And I envisioned all of this. The kids laugh, but I envisioned this a long time ago.

Instead of studying law in the law school, I'll be picking up trash in front of the law school. That's not what I envisioned doing with my law degree.

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

I'm in game mode. This is where I want to be. This is what I envisioned all those months I was working to get my knee back where it needed to be.