Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Furst

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

Alain de Botton

Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.

Afrojack

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

Alan Ball

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

Bruce Boxleitner

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

Bernie Sanders

The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

Bryant Gumbel

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

Bruce Greenwood

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.

Jack Adams

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

Jim Brown

The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

Yes. You have to look at fixed costs and the efficiency of operating systems there are what is behind this $150,000. This money now is basically for cash flows.

To pull that away requires creating a whole new life. There isn't any medication that is going to do that for them. There are so many personal and social things. You are basically creating a whole new life. You've been living a lie for years. You've been living under enormous amounts of stress, even if you all of a sudden stop the gambling, that's essential, but that just allows you to proceed with everything else you have to do.

Garth Tander

Todd (Kelly) was hitting me a couple of times a lap every lap and basically just pushed his way past.

Today, we possess the basic technology to produce and launch satellites,

While today's kids can receive email through their cell phones or use the Internet to do their homework, many don't know the basics of saving and money management.

While thousands are dying in Iraq, here at home our government is waging a new war, a 'war on dissent' that threatens to dismantle the constitution and severely challenge our country's basic democratic principles of free speech and peaceful assembly." ()

While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn't necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses.

While the Treasury supply is a big growth number, it doesn't overwhelm basic rate fundamentals and what's going on in both the domestic and global economy.

While the government deprives workers of wage hikes, it condones the weekly oil price hikes imposed by the Big Three and new oil players. How can the government expect workers to cope with the high cost of petroleum and its domino effect on prices of other basic goods and services?

You basically won that first game for us.

You basically should not throw a breaking ball, any type of breaking ball, including a slider, until you shave.

You basically look at we have a Game 7 in our home building (tonight).

You basically know the drug isn't cyanide. You don't know much else.

You basically have to start over from scratch.

You basically connect to shows that are meaningful to you and will be nostalgic to you for the rest of your life.

You basically charge what the traffic will bear.

Scott Stevens

We watched a lot of film to prepare for this game, but we basically just stayed lower than (Tennent) did. The lowest man wins the battle at the line of scrimmage.

We had some organizational meetings and really checked with the schools in Schofield, Point and Rapids. We basically copied some of their things that we liked.

Two of the most basic responsibilities we have on this earth are to put God first in our lives and offer ourselves in service to others.

When someone only has $200 to their name and has to pay their electric bill soon, why make them pay for basic necessities?

Kobe Bryant

When somebody comes down the lane, you've got to hit him. You can't let them come down the lane and just finger roll and get easy baskets. ... That's just basic NBA basketball.

Cliff Floyd

When she did it last time it was more she was going off the old test. She was just happy to do her own test. Her test basically proves I'm fine. I'm OK. Do I have to monitor it? Of course. But there are no concerns whatsoever.

Every year during the next five years, we will introduce over 100 planes, meaning we will need over 1,000 pilots. We will be able to basically meet this requirement ... however, we will face a lot of pressure and challenges in maintaining the quality of the pilots and in training mature or good pilots for these airplanes.