Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Serve and pass. You take care of the basics and go from there.

Mark Johnson

Slowly, we're getting healthy. We did a little bit of fundamentals, but we used (the extra day) basically just to heal up.

So 2006 is basically going to shape up to be very similar to 2005.

Rodney Mullen

Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do, these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own, and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself.

Henry Blodget

At the same time, however, we continue to be discouraged by one basic trend: a steady increase in our loss estimates without a correspondingly large increase in revenue or profitability estimates.

That's a great number that basically calms a lot of the fears out there.

John Bunch

That's a part of basketball. You just have to go with it. When you hear people chanting your name and wanting you to do bad, that basically means you're a good player. You have to just tune it out. It's nothing. I listen and I just laugh at it.

Thomas Howard

A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.

Mike Matheny

The label surprised me because of how defensive-minded he is and how much he cares about the position. That's basically how I'm wired. I respect guys who respect the position.

The labels have complained basically that they're not making enough money on downloads, that they prefer subscription services,

The intention was not to create a counterfeit-proof note -- which is basically impossible -- but one that's harder to duplicate and easier to authenticate. The new designs have definitely improved upon our efforts in detection and enforcement.

Nancy Walker

The judge basically was of the opinion that things were moving pretty quickly with respect to the postal facilities in New Jersey and wanted to have command of the facts,