Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our rebounding was basically non-existent tonight, and I'm very disappointed in the way we played. Noel had it going and their entire team really played well, but we certainly helped their cause.

Craig Venter

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.

Particularly over the last year, anti-virus (programs) have lost a lot of their effectiveness. They are basically no longer capable of keeping up with the proliferation of new viruses.

Partway through the process, we threw up a flare and said, 'We think we've made a mistake. We think we should design for 400 watts per square foot.' And we were basically laughed out of the room,

Pavel and Hank are two young players who are very, very important to our franchise. In Hank's case, he's really coming into the prime of his career. I'm happy he made a long-term commitment; basically we bought ourselves one year of unrestricted free agency.

Orange had one of the better programs in the state. One thing I remember was how he had an offensive and defensive system that basically was the same every year. The kids knew what to do. It was like playing a machine.

People have been basically staying away from them. The citizens need to keep up the good work of letting the professionals handle it pesticide companies and us.

We'll be in the Oakland Country meet and the Milford regional, that basically is all new to us. Good competition brings out good performances, and our kids have responded pretty well in the past. Now they have to step up a little more.

With this team we're cautiously optimistic. It's basically the same team from last year . . . so we're expecting them to do a little bit better than we did last year. But we have a tough road ahead, especially in our district.

Annalee Newitz

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

Susan Minot

Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.

Jim Crace

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

We're still in the hole and we've got to battle to get even again. When you have a performance like we had, everything needs work. We have to get good at the basics and try to give ourselves a chance.

We're still basically in a learning (process). But theoretically you could duplicate any climate you want to duplicate.

We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 40 per cent the year before and 30 per cent the year before that, then you're hitting them with another basically property tax. . . . It's just the straw that broke the camel's back, it's too much.

Chris Barron

Today the United States House has courageously stood up for basic fairness for LGBT Americans. T his is a tremendous day for our entire LGBT community.

Today, there are only a handful of tiny countries who aren't basically starting on a track of an unbelievable growth in their need for using more oil.

TI has their foothold in lots of these markets already. It is looking to take the same basic technology and pitch it to a bunch of very different customers.

Troy gave us a real battle last year. It's going to be our first match outside. I expect it to be a challenge for us because, one, its going to be our first match outside. Also, it's a very good team, a team that has been playing outside basically all winter long.

Trevor and Kyle can score basically whenever they want.

Trent was a complete gentleman and waited patiently for me to speak with him. When he did get his chance he basically introduced himself and said that he just wanted me to know that he was here in Nashville.

ASAP Ferg

'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.

Yeah, we always have that concept, too. But when you remove a law, you're basically giving a green light to that.

Yeah, this is Seahawks territory. The Seahawks are basically our home team.

You know, fertilizer and energy, you've gotta have them so they're basically going to cut money right off your profit. It's coming right out of your pocket.

We know they like the flanks and like to serve it in and that Love can create on his own. We were worried about him being free, especially in the 18-yard-box. They basically scored on what we thought they would. It was a transition play.

We know they are going to need gentle attention, ... We also know that they'll need basic goods and probably some counseling.

Edward Kennedy

You know it's kind of interesting, our Republican friends have spent $80 million to distort, misrepresent and basically lie about John Kerry's record, ... That's because they haven't got a record of their own.

Unlike disappointing earnings in the U.S., those in Japan do not look so bad. But investors are basically taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Richard Jones

Under the current economic policies and the situations they're creating, I don't see a drying up of the sources of immigration to the U.S. in the foreseeable future. The basic causes for the migration are still in place.

We get really hung up on the details of diet. Like how much protein should I eat, how much of this should I eat. It's the clutter that blocks the basic message. Eat smaller portions. Eat in moderation.