Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Thompson

Going back in time to the 1980s ... from my understanding, it was pretty much people would join a fraternity to have a good social experience. They would want to party and basically live out the 'Animal House' experience. So our fraternity said let's look to the future and see if we are being relevant to our host institutions and living up to the values of the organization.

He said if you observed basic rules and security you would be OK. We knew he was playing it down for our sake and there was obvious danger.

He's already told us that he's going to be forceful and preemptive in rate hikes. And so this is basically an exclamation point . . . all it simply does is reaffirm what he has already said: higher rates.

He's got basic muscle soreness, but the back is holding up well. It's a goal by the end of the season (to have him pitch).

He's just very versatile. We can put him in basically (any event) and he has no problem with that and doesn't complain about it. He's good at everything.

Pat Haden

He's a tough New Jersey guy. Those words mean something to him and people around him. By his force of will he has these guys playing much smarter. They are making fewer mistakes. And the offense has been completely different from a year ago with basically the same personnel. All of a sudden, guys who were invisible a year ago are making incredible plays.

Rick Adelman

He's definitely had an impact on the way we defend because he is a great defender. He gives us a guy who can basically shut down people. He also does things you just can't teach. Every situation, he has great instinct and he has great physical ability.

He's helped me a lot. My game is basically a replica of his. I'm brining back the old school style.

His officials have been basically bamboozling the people for the last number of years.

His memory of the incident was basically nonexistent, except for what he has been told or read.

Historically, I think we basically just sold time to you, and you just bought time from us. And because of this new nonlinear world of television with all these new options, that's no longer the way we do business.

Dennis Hastert

His theory fails a basic test of real economics,

I think it's a smack in the face to us. I feel like they basically tried to pull the plug on our season, but we're not going to let that happen.

I think it's an exciting endeavor, and we're really jazzed about it. We think there's a real opportunity to basically kick-start a new genre. Syndication is always looking for something new and different, and I think this is going to hit that nail on the head.

I think it's imprecise at best. It's basically a bunch of college students out here.

Joseph Gatt

I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes.

It comes up basically at every practice and every meeting we have.

It comes down to basic communication and setting expectations.

It involved basically a street fair event with a tent on a closed-off street.

Lara Flynn Boyle

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

I think the markets are basically making time as a result of the Iraq situation. The negatives are being played up, and the positive things not absorbed. With a modest resolution to some of these things we might see a market rally.

I think the market is witnessing a snowball effect with many investors, who are basically speculating, preferring to sell rather than hold on to their stocks.

I think their basic view is, 'When you, the Palestinians, show that you're doing it, we'll get involved. If not we're not going to invest a lot of political capital.' I think that is the message.

Brent Spiner

I think the idea, from the beginning, was that Data was a machine that basically teaches himself everything he experiences and sees becomes a part of his programming.

I thought he did a very good job of competing. He was basically getting by with two pitches.... As much as anything, he just had a good fastball.

Jason Lee

I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'

I thought Ben has gotten better and better each week. The biggest thing with Ben is just learning the basics of offensive line play. He never really played that much offensive line, but he was born to be an offensive lineman. He has a bright future in this game. He's such a good person; he works hard, and he's smart.

I think you cannot extrapolate from sulfur, which few things emitted. It was basically power plants. Carbon is just kind of everything -- it's cars, it's industry, it's power plants, it's agriculture.

Bill Clinton

I think the first ruling was basically the right one,

I think the board feels that a competition gym meets the needs of the district for a little extra money ... basically upgrading what we have in the plan.

I think the difference that separates what I call a fireman and a fireman is people who are die-hard firemen that are in it to serve the public and basically help their fellow man. When (we) are cut, you bleed fire department red.

I think the basic tone in Beijing is that we can only do what we can. We can't sacrifice national interest just for concern in the United States.

David Chang

I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.