Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

John Brady

I like the way we match up. They're basically a seven-guy rotation like us. Obviously, with that in mind, if we can get to the foul line like we've been doing, it may give us an advantage. I like the match-ups that we've seen.

Jimmy Carter

In the last five years there has been a profound and radical change in the basic policies or moral values of our country, ... This is just one indication of what has been done under this administration to change the policies that have persisted all the way through our history.

In the last five days, we have successfully concluded negotiations with five of the largest manufacturers in the world, ... That's five in five. What they do and how they do it basically touches everyone worldwide in one way or another.

In the last few years, companies have begun to move beyond traditional philanthropy and basic compliance into a new kind of corporate and social responsibility. It is the new business environment that has prompted concrete steps by corporations.

In the fourth quarter it was us stopping them but on offense we basically ran out of steam. Without Jon and Derek we were trying different personnel combinations but weren't able to get much of a drive going.

In the end, it basically came down to where I felt like I had some unfinished business here. I didn't like how things ended last year from a team standpoint or on a personal standpoint.

Andy Dick

In the front of the boat, you look at it as you have basically two things you have to do,

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.

Pierre Omidyar

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

Eric Ries

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.

Carlos Lopez

Instead of paying $30 for the basic package that has two channels that I watch and 28 channels that I never watch, we're creating this model where the user is going to be able to customize their own cable.

Instead of granting the most basic of protections to thousands of California families, Gov. Schwarzenegger has chosen to protect the anti-gay special interests that control the Republican Party.

Intel is trailing both in terms of basic performance and performance per watt. I think by the end of the year, they can be at near parity with AMD.

Sathya Baba

Instruct the women of the village in the basic principles of child health,chile-care and child training.When health fails, people become despondent and even desperate.

In some ways, our basic knowledge about Pluto could all fit on a three-by-five card.

In so far as this is already discounted by the interest rate futures markets, it is also priced into the euro and we're basically back to square one, where we started the year -- two more hikes here (in the United States), and two more in the euro (zone).

Mark McGwire

In spring training, it was one of my goals to get fifty homers. Now everything is basically icing on the cake as far as what I can do to strive for, I surprise myself. It's unbelieveable.

Innocent spouses basically need to show that they didn't change their lifestyle or live a frivolous lifestyle.

Maurice Allais

In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

Mitchell Baker

I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

I like to say that I've never really had a real job, ... But I never looked at modeling from a business standpoint: I'd simply work on things that I wanted to do and sell them when I was done. It was basically a way to pay for my hobby. The purpose wasn't to make money; the purpose was to pay the rent so I could do it full-time.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

O. Henry

I just tried to clog up the middle, tried to be as big a presence as I possibly could be. I basically just used my body to make it tough for them, kind of get them out of synch with their offense.

Markus Persson

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

Jon Scieszka

I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'

I remember playing there many times. What the city is going through now is rough. I still have a friend who lives in Lafayette (La.). I heard his whole house was gone, everything basically floated away. The whole situation tugs at you.

Jessica Simpson

I love that I can dream about paisley, and then two months later, someone's wearing it. I'm basically styling America.

I looked at it as a fresh start, ... We did basic 7-on-7 drills, and I went out and just worked hard. That's all I could do.

Bruce Springsteen

I'll let somebody else sort that part of it, I guess. But a lot of 'em seem pretty applicable, you know? Mrs. McGrath is basically an Irish anti-war song, but it's ripped right out of the headlines everyday today.

Marie Brennan

I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.

Mike Tomlin

But you can tell he's a quick study because basically what he knows is what he's learned this weekend, and he's doing things in a sound nature on the field already.