Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian White

A fund could have the greatest track record in the world, but if the portfolio management team that posted that track record is no longer running the fund that history is basically irrelevant.

After winning three out of five years, Brad Carlin, the guy who came up with this, was basically kicked out of his pool. I think that may be a hazard of this.

The name Burlington Coat Factory is a misnomer because they carry a full line of fashion apparel, including coats in the winter. It's basically an off-price operation. You get good value there, very good value.

Terry Gilliam

The musical, Hair, was at the time very smart because it got to that basic element of this dividing line in society... which was hair.

The M.O. was basically the same. They wore masks and had guns. They demanded cash. They usually were looking for the safes.

Jonathan Evison

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.

After a loss like that, you think of everything you could've done to maybe have changed the outcome, ... That's a game we should have had and were in position to win. We know the BCS run is basically out of reach. We just have to have a short memory from here out.

After Opening Ceremonies, we've gone to every venue as it opened, my team. We've helped them open on their first days. Now we're basically firefighters if there's something going on.

George Harrison

After 'Norwegian Wood', I met Ravi Shankar at a friend's house in London, for dinner. He offered to give me instructions in the basics of the sitar, like how to sit, how to hold it, and the basic exercises. It was the first time I had ever really learned these sort of things.

Scott Aukerman

After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

After he won the lottery, he basically paid off one of the sisters to divorce him and she got a $5 million settlement to basically go away.

John Kasich

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

Employer sanctions can be a very efficient tool if enforced. The problem is the way the law reads, it's basically a joke. It basically gives employers a huge loophole to walk through.

(Elliot) brought in two seniors in the second quarter they didn't play in the first because of disciplinary reasons. So they basically had two starting squads and we couldn't compete with that.

Edgar has managed to basically be in the hearing world. He has developed his own language with his friends.

Billy Burns

Drew was huge tonight. We basically have the same group that got us this far last year.

Drew was basically on his deathbed. Now he's back to his normal self, thanks to a lot of prayer and obviously great work by his doctors.

Especially in New York state, we have a constitutional obligation to provide a sound basic education. And we're nowhere near doing that.

Florida bears are basically pretty shy of humans. If they see you, they're going to disappear most of the time.

Bill O'Reilly

Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.

Nick Zinner

Fever' is basically a live record. We knew exactly what it should sound like before we went into the recording. So we could have this bratty confidence.

Fertilization is a very basic cell interaction, a very important medical, economic and social interaction. And it's also a paradigm of how other cells interact, because every cell in our body is near or in close contact with other cells. And when those interactions break down you can get cancer and other diseases. So identifying these molecules could give us a better idea of the lock and key necessary for everyday functioning, not only in terms of preventing infertility but also for preventing disease.

Fernando couldn't see and Shane kept hitting him in the same place. (Cortez and Watson) were basically saying, 'If he can't defend himself, we have to stop it.' The stop was at the right time.

Every time we do have a freeze or disaster it exposes the reality that agriculture is dependent on workers who basically don't have a social safety net to help them. That is one of the many reasons why I think immigration reform is so essential.

Everything we know about Pluto could basically fit on a postcard. We are truly going to a new frontier.

Everything we do really stems from being record collectors rather than musicians. I suppose that's where we're basically different from most bands. When we started, we were fairly heavily inspired by hip-hop from a production perspective because of the way a song is constructed with breaks. That's something people weren't really doing with pop tunes at the time, and it seemed like an obvious way of making music without having to learn how to play an instrument, which had always been my dream.

Every year we keep thinking this is the last year. The sixth year we were sure was the end, then the seventh and eighth, so now we have all basically given up trying to guess.

Every year we go into it like it's two different seasons. First is the regular season, then you start over in the tournament where you basically start from scratch. We feel like we've made one step, and now the opportunity is in front of us to take another step.

Warren Sapp

Except for that last drive (on which the Patriots went up 30-13) we basically handed it to them.

Han Xiaopeng

Except for doing some somersaults on the ground, I knew nothing about the aerials at the beginning. I have to learn all the basic skills, such as skiing, swimming and inline skating. When I touched skiing, I learned very fast and I realized that I could do the sport well in the future.

Don Jones

The results are no surprise. They are similar to the results of another survey the MDOT did in 1994. What we see in Wiscasset are seasonal surges of traffic congestion that basically make the road non-functional. That's why the bypass was conceived.

Phil Jackson

There's plenty of time to look at this for a while until either he shows improvement or else we go back to more of a basic offensive standard ... and take that guard responsibility away. Move him into a forward place where he can make plays and he can still be a participant in the offense.

Mike Jones

Sometimes a guy gets real hot. And he was really hot, He was basically just letting it go. That's the sign of a good pure shooter and a guy just coming in here wanting to win.