Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are basically done at the WTO with Canadian lumber and the WTO has -- with a minor exception -- ruled completely for the United States.

We are basically being held up by geopolitical events,

We are basically a senior-experienced team. I was real happy with the way the kids kept their composure in a tough road game.

We can see first-hand at Wal-Mart how many of our customers are struggling to get by, ... Our customers simply don't have the money to buy basic necessities.

We're all so evenly matched, it just depends on which teams show up that night. The last time we played Mason we had 50 unforced errors, so we basically gave them two games.

We're all guessing at this point, basically throwing darts at a number of possible scenarios.

What I'm going to say to the guys on the first day of meeting is that basically they are going to pick this Olympic team.

Tom DeLay

What I heard was what most of us already knew, ... I'm sure the report will give the details substantiating what we've all already known, that basically security is not something that can be 100 percent.

We've got to invest in basic services. That includes fire, water, sewage, the people here.

We take that basic model and license brands names, in this case Marvel, to create a branded ISP service fans can sign up for.

We take it to the basic component. We shred it. It goes through a magnetic belt. It comes back as reusable plastic.

We support a law that sets a basic floor for states. But states should be able to experiment and come up with new ways to protect consumers.

Naeem Khan

We think that it will basically strengthen the peace process between Pakistan and India,

Steve Johnson

We throw a party and a race breaks out. When you boil it down, that's our basic business model. It definitely works.

Antonio Guterres

We are extremely concerned about those who have been left with no shelter, no heat and none of the basic essentials required for daily subsistence.

Today is a major step in cleaning up the past. This is a plan that will enable us to leverage our core brands and increase cash flow. I still believe the basic foundation of this enterprise -- our core brands -- is sound and has the opportunity to be as successful as ever.

Sathya Baba

To exercise freedom in its true sense, man has to respect the five basic values.It is in that freedom he will find true bliss.

What you're getting now with the stock where it is trading, there is a lot of news-event volatility, you get people betting on the next move... they're basically just trading on the momentum being generated by the news.

Kevin Young

What we wanted to do is basically design in a social stigma,

What we have now is basically $68 million worth of projects that were recommended. Most of them were streets and there were a few million dollars for the jail.

What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

Elon Musk

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.

Elayne Boosler

I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.

Ed Sheeran

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

I don't know about the hair. I've had it since I was a kid, and when I look at myself in the mirror, it looks quite normal. But then when I look at myself in a photo, I realise that my hair is basically bigger than my head! There's quite a lot of interest in my hair, which is strange, as for me, it's normal!

Eric Schlosser

I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.

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.