Famous Quotes & Sayings

Basically he's been a terror in the community and a pussycat in custody,

Basically he did the wrong thing for the right reason, and he has to spend the rest of his days atoning for it.

Bobby Cox

Basically guys are taking better care of themselves. There's no doubt about it in my mind. I've been around for 40 years, and I see that.

Basically for personal reasons he chose to put his hand up.

Basically everything was, 'Be smart,' ... Just be smart about everything you do, on and off the field.

Basically everything that has to do with a yard, we'll do and if we can't, we'll try.

Basically 'duty-free' means a shop has promised that they will not compete with shops outside the airport, i.e. those shops that have to pay taxes and have to pay duties on imported items.

Zhu Rongji

basically completed the reform of its government structure.

Umberto Guidoni

Basically checking the, some of the spec on the computer and also using the visual cue that we have in order to help him in driving the arm.

Basically at this point what we need to do is put all the facilities in place to manage the tens of thousands of people who will be here for a little more than a week.

Basically a situation where you can allocate a set of resources to a virtualized 'cluster' made up of multiple machines linked by a network (i.e. like a LAN or the internet). That goal is still years away.

Mike Harris

Basically anything you can get in a house you can get in a houseboat.

Basically any Japanese stocks can be bought. Strong output is having a ripple effect on other things such as wages and consumption.

Basically all they have right now is the clothes on their back. All their Christmas stuff was in there. Everything. Looks like the house is going to be totally destroyed. They're not going to have anything left.

Basically a darker suit. For guys they would rather have a white shirt or light blue shirt. For girls, they say nothing too over the top.

Lil Jon

Basically 50 and Scrappy were already good friends, ... While we were out on tour, 50 came to me with the business proposition, and we sat down and worked it out.

Ed Lee

Because they provide the grant money, they also control the construction of any work that happens in the courthouse and they basically tell us what we get to do,

Hu Jintao

China will unswervingly pursue a basic policy of opening up to the rest of the world and will further pursue our economic and technical cooperation with the rest of the world,

Chinatown is basically burned down, there are only a couple of shops left standing. Right up to this morning looting is still continuing.

I'm a happy guy. We went from a position where we were basically searching for a guy last year. We didn't have a guy pretty much throughout the year. ... Now it gives us more opportunities to get other guys on the field, and Devin, we're real excited about him.

Theodore Hesburgh

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.

My basic premise is that, as time moves along, they're going to have to spend more from operating cash flow, and that's going to increase the cost burden in the future compared to more nimble companies like Motorola. Investors are going to be interested in companies with rising operating margins, not ones struggling to raise them.

Alan Greenspan

My basic concern, ... is that, if we are forced to implement a very significant unilateral tariff, the dangers to the overall international financial system, in my judgment, are very large.

Tim Costello

More support is needed for meeting basic human needs such as health, water and education.

Monk is the cornerstone of USA 's original programming. It remains one of the highest-rated series in basic cable history. We are so proud to bring it to the next level.

Sufjan Stevens

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Money and donations were sent out there for basic needs, like food and shelter. And in a situation like that, education is not in the top tier of needs. And it fits into our committee's mission of helping students continue their passion to learn about agriculture and work towards a career in agriculture.

Peter Thiel

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

Joe Dubuque

My high school coach convinced me to go. He said it's basically like a paid vacation and I was like 'OK.' I came out here and knew it was the right place.

My family has been in this business for the last eight generations. But today the profession has failed to fulfil our basic needs of food and shelter,

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

David Keene

No one would deny the government the power it needs to protect us all. But when that power poses a threat to the basic rights that make our nation unique, its exercise must be carefully monitored by Congress and the courts.

Now, that's basically the same statement that was reported in the newspapers.