Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.

We're basically keeping up with the bed base. If we have the people here, we have to fit them on the mountain.

We're basically just working day to day, ... I have friends who have sent applications to different departments. A lot of the veterans say that, after the rebuilding, they're just going to leave.

We're basically just seeing a little follow-on from Friday's unemployment report. The dollar has been stronger due to the interest rate outlook.

We're basically in a hold position. We expect more, and hopefully we'll see more.

We're basically identical teams. That's why this is going to be such an exciting game. We're playing for Louisiana, and I'm sure those guys are playing for Miami. We're looking forward to giving Miami everything we've got.

We're basically guessing how the BLS adjusts for Katrina, which is an even bigger stretch than we normally have to do.

We're basically getting it done with five seniors and a junior.

We?re basically gawking at the president and his toys.

We're basically flying by the seat of our pants. The main thing we're taught is that theater is play, especially with children.

We're basically entering the year on a pretty strong clip, even though the economy is likely to slow later in 2006. The first signals for the first quarter show the economy is gaining speed.

We're basically doing a feature film every week. This is big stuff. We blew up a pizza kid, robbed a moving train, went down into the sewers, robbed a bank, did a chase scene with helicopters over downtown L.A.--and that's just in the pilot!

We're basically consolidating what has been a favorable week. We've had some strong economic data and a pretty good decline on crude for the week.

We're basically a young team with him out. We can go to a bigger lineup when he's in the game and do some different things.

We're basically a new company. We have new ownership, including some key managers, and we're really trying to establish a new culture at the same time. It has forced everyone of us to grow professionally and that's really been exciting.

We're basically a land of immigrants. We are Hispanic, and we wanted to support the Hispanic community.

Larry Dixon

We're basically 80 points out of first place and after these next three races, if we're to have a shot at the title, we need to cut that number in half,

Leonard Mlodinow

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

Leon Redbone

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.

We're really excited with our position. It's basically in our hands, and we're playing at home. We're trying to not get too distracted. It's a big deal for us and we know it's a big deal for our fans. We just hope we can come out and play real hard.

We're really excited. Basically we'll have four days to play and three away from baseball. We're taking the (junior varsity) and varsity, and there will be 10 games between the two. We'll vacation for three (days) and play for four.

We knew we were going to get their best shot; we got their best shot tonight. We were a possession away from being out of the game. We basically waited until the last possible second.

We let them do stuff that kids typically do at a playground -- push ups, pull ups -- they're basically playing on monkey bars. We're not trying to put them in a squat rack and have them squat 200 pounds.

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of service men and women lack basic financial knowledge.

Nancy Giles

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

We have said for some time that Windows 2000 will have a slow ramp because companies take time to test and deploy new operating systems. Windows 2000 is basically a second half of 2000 story.

John Morrison

We have to go back to some of the basics. Those basics are the parents have to get involved in the young people lives. The parents have to know what their kids are doing. The churches are going to have to get involved. We are going to have to start educating our kids.

Bill Clinton

We have to find ways to continue to change consistent with our basic values and our common community and humanity.

We have no legal binding, we basically are trying to work with the parties to see if there's an interest on their part to resolve this amicably. If we feel that the parties are not willing to resolve it, then we're done.

We want people to hold hands and create a bridge of support for the basic human rights, dignity and equal respect of immigrants in this country.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to try to start establishing our bench more, so basically we're playing three guys and giving those guys a little bit more minutes.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.