Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you look at our portfolio that we run here with a three-year track record, basically it's equal to the S&P the last three years. This year we're down about 1.8, 1.9 percent versus an S&P that's significantly more than that down.

If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.

Jack Reed

if you've got competent units ... they're basically militias in national uniforms, and you're uncertain of whose orders they're taking, that's not the security force you want.

David Johnson

In this basic comparison, 60 percent of likely Republican voters surveyed said that they preferred Candidate A, the Gallagher profile. Only 19 percent said that they preferred the Crist profile, and 21 percent remained undecided.

In those days, we'd get a bunch of copies of an old game that people would donate, missing pieces and parts, and we'd take all those copies and make them into complete sets. We did that for a while, and then we basically caught on to the idea of offering something new to American consumers.

Rene Russo

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

Paul Wolfowitz

High tariffs keep them out of key markets, and tariffs and subsidies together drive down the world price of their exports. Without the income that trade could provide, it is their children who go hungry and who are deprived of clean water, medicines and other basic necessities of life.

He's special, he's in his own world. I see a young man that basically rises to the occasion. He jumps with the crowd. He wants the crowd to get involved with him.

Eric Jensen

He's the got the basic ingredients: He's got intelligence and courage.

Doc Rivers

He's just been engaged. We've been engaged with him. Mark and I, we've had a couple of good conversations this summer one right before the season started. We basically talked about a lot of things. I told him on my half I will just try to communicate better, but on his half the body language and all the other things have to be better. And if we were in a grading system he'd be an A-plus.

Rita Ora

I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.

I?m saying wake up, ... Stop this process in its tracks and start with the basic elements. How many do we need in the region, and what are the best options?

If makers don't invest now it basically means they are giving up on the game. It's kind of like poker. But there is no way all of the TV makers will end up happy. At some point in the future, overcapacity will emerge and there will be a shakeout.

Corey Patterson

If I were to keep doing stuff like I did this season, I'd be doing the same stuff and it doesn't matter if the season kept going, or they put me in a high school game or winter ball, ... I'm not opposed to doing anything extra but I have to get the basics down first.

I have no problem taking privileges away. It comes to a different level of basic human rights if you take away clothing and dignity. I don't know if it is consistent with the sheriff's core values.

I have no problem taking privileges away... It comes to a different level of basic human rights if you take away clothing and dignity. I don't know if it is consistent with the sheriff's core values.

Steve Francis

I haven't been able to practice. I felt like a new player who was basically thrown into the game with little experience.

I had to get out because basically it was in flames, on fire, so I got out, I got over the back and luckily enough someone put me out,

I had to basically train my wife how to save herself and leave me behind.

I had this episode, sudden death, where basically I died.

Jane Krakowski

I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.

Oscar Arias

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world's population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation.

I never thought about it until I broke my leg and realized I have to get insurance, ... The more I was traveling and doing work I realized I did need that, basically to protect my investment, which is myself.

Allen Johnson

I'm very happy. It's been a really, really tough year. I am still motivated to continue until Beijing 2008. Motivation comes even without big championships next year. I will work on technique and basic training.

Richard Eyre

I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.

Russell Crowe

I'm trying to fill my basic obligations to my wife who needs to know that I'm at home, I'm in bed, I haven't had too much to drink and that, primarily important, I'm alone,

I'm used to thinking a certain way, making my reads and my throws a certain way, routes are run a certain way - now all that is slightly different, ... It's basically the same offense, but there are enough differences that a lot of the things I'm used to doing I have to learn in a different way. That's what takes so much time.

Bret Bielema

I need to have daily improvement in everything we do and I basically felt throughout the entire spring that we did do that.

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.

Danny Meyer

I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.

Jerry Brown

In essence, it's a typo. The books are really put together from a series of complex databases. For headings, they're in the (computer) system as codes. Somebody basically entered the wrong code.

Steve Spurrier

I'm not ... those walks schools do, we've never done that. We've basically just bused up next to the locker room.

Tom Renney

I'm not sure that we competed hard enough for the first 40 minutes, and the third period was just basically a penalty-kill period. There's not a lot to like about the game, quite honestly. But we'll go to school and correct ourselves.