Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ze Frank

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

Zadie Smith

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

Zac Efron

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

William Shockley

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

William Shawcross

It is so basic as to be mundane, but in disaster relief, all the good will in the world can go to hell in a hand basket if the logistics don't work. In Ethiopia at the best of times, the logistics are difficult. It is a huge country - about the same size as Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma combined. It is also a transportation nightmare.

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Wesley Schultz

The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

Vivek Wadhwa

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

Chen Shui-bian

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Dave Ramsey

Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.

We start out with basic things like 'milk,' 'more,' 'please' and 'eat' - things that are important to them and what they want. Then we just sign it as we say it to them and that allows them to put the word and the sign together. We've had really good success and we all get excited each time they do it.

Chiaki Kuriyama

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.

We've been working this week on defensive zone coverage, trying to fix some deficiencies uncovered last weekend. We've also worked on fundamentals, like shooting and basic passing.

Harvey Pekar

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.

We do a lot of reading. I've got a stack of old Irish cookbooks from my mom, and basically you tweak it from there.

Keith Wood

We do a lot of fitness work and it helps a lot. We can basically run all day.

We'd never hear the end of it, but that's basically the same as what happened

We'd like to go through an education process, section by section, just to give you some very basic information.

Bill Clinton

We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense.

Michael Oppenheimer

We do have a little time, but not much. . . . If we don't get a serious program in place for the long term in this second post-Kyoto phase, we will simply not make it and we will be crossing limits which will basically produce impacts that are unacceptable.

Brian Jones

We do have a labor market that's basically on fire,

Johnny Mathis

We work hard on it (the offense), and being down here gives us a chance to work on it during the day and play at night. The team ran the offense well, and every time we ran the offense right we basically scored.

We worked hard on it (penalties) yesterday (Tuesday) during training as both teams are basically even.

Charles Clarke

We worked all our lives basically for nothing.

We didn't have a surplus of refining before Katrina. There is basically no slack left in the system, and you don't have to have a Katrina-type impact to have a devastating impact on the industry right now.

We didn't have a lot of good shot selection early. We've basically lived or died with the perimeter people.

John Sweeney

We basically work every day of the week, Saturday and Sunday.

We basically went in with a rookie team. Experience is probably more crucial in wrestling than any other sport. But I was also very proud of them, because nobody went in and laid down for anybody.

We basically want to make sure that all the ground is covered.

We basically walked Stacy through the whole house and it was a hard time for all of us,

We basically used our own finances. We're fortunate.

We basically think not one person is the hero, the team is the hero. We don't have a star. The whole team is a star.