Famous Quotes & Sayings

Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.

Me and Mike, we've been friends for a long time. He and Antoine (Walker) basically took me under their wing when I first got in the league. Basically he said he's been watching me and I've really been playing well. He's just trying to keep me positive about the situation.

Carlos Arroyo

Me and him were talking a lot about us coming here and him having an opportunity here. And basically what he was telling me was he wants to get the love for basketball back. That means a lot to players who don't get a chance to play.

Mead works very slowly. Sometimes a grape ferment will basically be done in a week or so, whereas the mead you see out there has been bubbling for months, and it will keep bubbling for months.

Sania Mirza

My injury happened during the match, ... I went to hit an overhand and it felt like I basically hyper-extended my back. I couldn't really move very well after that, and it felt very stiff.

My main goal was to try to start off quick and just hit fairways and greens and basically do what I've been doing,

My main focus at the start of the season was basically to have the best senior year possible for Southwest Missouri State. I really didn't take into consideration the draft that much. I just wanted to help my team win basketball games. Once our season run was over, that's when I really started looking into where I might be going, or if I would go anywhere, so that's when I really started focusing on the next step.

My lawyer is going to court, and that's basically where it is now. My take, and I hope the people in power agree, is that we should stay.

Dean Young

My four basics are eating, sleeping, raising children and making money,

D. B. Weiss

One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.

Lauren Graham

One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

Hugh Johnson

One message we get is that the stocks people buy when they're scared -- basic materials, beverages, foods -- did not do as well. Investors are more optimistic about the economy.

Obviously, we wanted a better effort and we wanted to play smarter. We need to go back to basics and play a simpler game. Frustration is a big factor and hard to control, but we have to find a way.

Joe Nathan

Obviously, we've got a lot of work to do. But if we lose this series, we're basically out of it. To win this series shows we're still in it and shows we've still got some fight left in us.

Of course there will always be some expansion of security and contraction of security as information is developed, but basically security has been the same since the 11th.

Mark Billingham

Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

Of course, the other side of the coin was so many telephone calls, people wanting to know basic tax data.

Tomas Vokoun

Obviously you don't want to play the game from behind, but we basically had the knife to our throat.

Quentin Crisp

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

None of us want it to expire. It is only the president who is basically playing chicken with us.

None of those proposals are going to solve the problem, which is basically the city needs to fund the pension system, and it needs a big infusion of money to jump start it.

Only 10 New York Stock Exchange stocks made new lows yesterday, so it's clear that there is a great deal of underlying market strength. Industrials remain the clear winner, as they reached another new high yesterday. Financials had a huge rally and also closed at a new high. Leadership will eventually shift back to tech, energy and basic materials, but we're not there yet.

My concern basically to start with was the ambulances coming down off the interstate and getting to the hospital in the quickest time.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

Lev Vygotsky

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Joshua Foer

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.

Louie Schwartzberg

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

Louie Schwartzberg

I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day.

Kapil Sharma

I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.

K'naan

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

John Reed

We are honored to welcome these outstanding individuals to the Board, ... We look forward to combining their expertise and guidance to continue in our mission to perform outstanding basic research in the life-sciences and to provide the foundation of knowledge that is critical to medical progress.

We did have to work undercover and film covertly. It was basically just the two of us as a crew the whole time. We were also in territory if people knew what we were doing, there was the risk of retaliation.

Lucy Powell

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.