Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

When we did it in New York, it wasn't quite ready yet. But basically it gave us a stronger visibility in New York and really put the piece out there to a number of people.

When we'd have arguments over who has the best basic process for development, nobody wins. Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.

When we have seen the fire reports increasing, we have recalled those vehicles and replaced those switches. Ford has used the basic switch design in a large number of vehicles and the risk of fire related to the switch is much different in those certain populations that we have recalled.

Darrell Waltrip

When we get to the track, we're basically turned loose to the masses. And you'd better be willing to deal with that politely, slightly, lightly, all nightly whatever it takes.

When we first started, people were talking about a water park, and this is not anything like that. ... This is just meeting the basic needs of all ages.

What he's saying now is, wait, we've got to consult Beijing. We don't even know what the basic law means. This is ludicrous.

What he's done over here (in Pakistan) didn't count for too much. It was good for him to get over here and play some cricket basically and get some runs under the belt.

Harry Reid

What has been the response of this Republican-controlled Congress to the administration's manipulation of intelligence that led to this protracted war in Iraq? Basically nothing,

Rachel Taylor

We found out the people didn't even have things like Tylenol or ibuprofen. We had to take everything down there, even the most basic things.

Alison Moyet

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

Al Jourgensen

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

Annette Bening

My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.

Action Bronson

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.

We've been playing it for three years in the school and two in the summer, so it's basically what we do. I don't know how to explain it expect that it's just first nature.

We've been moving in the wrong direction. The basic question is whether we'll get closer to smaller schools if we break these districts up.

We sell deer-proof fencing that is basically invisible from 20 feet away.

Beth Daniel

We're talking an eight- to 10-minute drive from the closing ceremony to the golf course. So her heart raced at basically 290 beats per minute for about 15 minutes.

We've been debating this for quite some time. That one gauge at Branford basically monitored the whole system.

We've been at Camp Shelby, going through basic soldiering skills, everything from throwing hand grenades to low crawling, and down the road, we'll do some ground fire exercises, we'll do some field training exercises. Those are the basic soldiering skills, but here at the airport, we're getting back to our flying and mechanic skills, which is what we will be doing overseas.

We need to get back to the basics in elementary school. Without that, the enhanced curriculum in junior and senior high school will reject more students.

Aaron Klug

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

The government has basically chased away all the people in that town. Golo is a ghost town. Everybody has left.

Andrew O'Hagan

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

Andrew Mason

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.

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.