Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Belichick

What Mike does a great job of is he understands defense, and he understands what causes you the most problems and where you don't want to be defensively. Then he tries to put you in that situation as much as possible. Then based on how you react to that, then that's where he likes to attack.

What matters is, number one, establishing a goal, number two, establishing a strategy that helps you reach those goals, and, number three, not changing that strategy based on the noise going on in the market, which is best left to the short-term trader.

There is evidence of a false claim. It's not proof. But there's evidence. Based on our investigation so far, we believe there's enough to proceed.

Stephen Hadley

The purpose of the summit is for the democratically elected leaders to get together and reaffirm the fact that there is really a shared vision for the hemisphere that is based on democracy and free markets and free trade.

We've been told by Wal-Mart that the decision would be made on a store-by-store basis based on demand. The NRA and our members will be watching closely to make sure they stay true to their word.

Bryan Colangelo

We talked a lot about the ways things unfolded in Phoenix the last couple of weeks. He encouraged me to explore the opportunity based on perhaps what we both looked into the future and saw.

We're opposed to any employer's policy of discrimination based on sexuality. This is based on our reading of the Vermont Constitution and the U.S. Constitution as well. We honor the military and those that serve in it. Many of our students and faculty are veterans. But one does not preclude the other,

We're operating strictly with estimates. It was based on our best estimates at the time.

We're operating as a community bank, based here.

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

We had based all of our defensive game plan on stopping the big guys and neglected to get on him early and he hit like five in a row on us.

We can never use humans to directly test out the theories. We can only make inferences based on natural observation.

Lev Grossman

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

I miss Lisa 'Left Eye' every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn't see the movie based on her.

Tessanne Chin

I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am.

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

Winston Damarillo

We've released Fuse, a tested, integrated, documented suite of open-source software primarily based on Apache technology.

Mine supply in zinc remains very constrained. Zinc is the one metal that deserves a re-rating based on physical demand and supply characteristics alone.

Mr Rene Garcia Preval is credited with 51.15 per cent of the votes based on 96 per cent of voting stations counted, and is declared the winner.

Much of the NCDE is heavily forested so it's hard to see those bears. The bottom line here is we are going to have to revise the recovery plan for the NCDE, because we know we can't make a credible minimum-population estimate based on sightings of females or cubs.

Michael Specter

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together.

Mt. Hope and North Kingstown are both physical teams. We'll have a battle if we get there. They did the right thing with the seeds. They did it based on record not division winners. St. Ray's is on a collision course with North Smithfield in the semis. It should be interesting.

Kevin Madden

Mr. DeLay makes decisions and sets legislative priorities based on good policy and what is best for his constituents and the country. Any suggestion of outside influence is manipulative and absurd. Mr. DeLay has very firm beliefs and he fights very hard for them.

John Podhoretz

Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).

Medicare says that hospitals that perform more surgical procedures, such as many urban hospitals, are likely to experience decreases in payments as a result of moving a system of calculating payment based on hospital-specific costs, instead of charges.

Martti Ahtisaari

Mediators do not choose the conflicts they became involved in, but the parties to the conflict choose the mediator. Their participation as intermediaries is based on the trust of all the conflicting parties.

My inside game is pretty much based on quickness and my quickness is back to where it was. I've just got to get the explosiveness back and just get the feel back. I felt pretty good toward the end.

My foundation is based on helping children, and I hand-pick projects that are close to my heart and home.

My form so far hasn't been great but your year is based on the whole season and not the first month or two.

Lester Holt

My first priority is to provide perspective, ... This story is so broad-reaching and there are so many elements. I don't want people to make their judgments based on one report. We should never be in a position where we're firing up a mob. I don't think it's our job to beat people up.

One of the things Bode is really exceptional at is bringing intensity to big events. They bring out his best. I think that's what you're going to see. He'll bring something special and extraordinary, based on what he's done in the past.

Pat Riley

Obviously we're concerned about everybody's health, based on what happened last year. We've still got 19 games to play. You can't walk around on egg shells, but we do have to be conscious of the maintenance of these guys.