Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is my first victory of the season. I basically tried to ride it the same way as I did last year. I tried to really make the difference in the second half or the final third of the race. It seems to work out well that way. But it wasn't easy, as there were other strong riders here today. Winning this takes the pressure off my shoulders, it has been building for the last couple of months.

This is a good guy who basically has paid a lot of money. The mother basically seems to think that she's entitled to more and more.

Jacqueline Novogratz

This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.

Jerry Rice

This is a happy day for me. I think the tears that you see basically is that I have really enjoyed this ride. It's been really great, really fantastic.

This is a group that supports very basic government services like education and health care, and they see him as someone who was talking about cutting them back.

This is a classic confrontation between purists and pragmatists. It has been going on in both parties since the 1960s. This example is especially stark because DeWine and his critics are both conservative and committed to the same basic values.

Denise and Heather were inseparable. They were neighbors. They lived basically on the same street. They spent a lot of time together, especially since both started engaging in a divorce proceeding.

Dengue is one of these neglected diseases ... it's basically been ignored for many, many years.

A petrol bomb was thrown down the turret. It was on fire basically from the back.

Earl Blumenauer

Any community needs to plan to be able to realize their vision, ... Things that some people think are amenities ... are, in fact, part of the basic infrastructure.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

An ombudsman has an obligation when it spots trouble, when it spots patterns, basically to speak truth to power.

Are these prices competitive or are we being gouged? That's the basic question here today.

Robert Jobson

As a result, at a meeting of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Prince William and the Queen they basically decided that the evidence had gone too far and they interjected in the case,

As a brand new startup company, one of the things you have to do is go out and raise money and be a visionary. I came up with the basic ideas for the technology here, so I'm more of a technologist. And I really had a longing to get back on the engineering side.

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

The bulls basically hoped for a number showing housing is eroding, and they didn't get it. I'm not surprised. As long as jobs are strong -- as long as interest rates are low -- this isn't going to change.

The buildings are basically intact for all practical purpose. The site needs some work, but this is the identifying site of the state's worst coal mining disaster and that needs to be preserved.

The calculator is designed to provide a basic projection of consumers' buying potential. Our built-in debt-to-income ratio calculates the high end of affordability.

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Right now we are basically hoping that Mother Nature and the weather co-operate with us,

Pretty much if you're not going to go his way, there's basically no other way. He's gonna turn us around, but to build us up, he had to tear us down.

(Pratt) basically did the same thing in (the first game) as she did tonight. We put three different girls on her tonight and she still went to the hole. So I give her all the credit in the world -- she did a great job.

Sam had an excellent tournament for a freshman. He had a real good chance, at one point, of winning the whole thing. The champ basically walked through the competition except for when he wrestled Sam.

Say if you have a high-end Cadillac, you'll pay basic insurance of about $1,200 -- so 10% of that will be $120.

Grady Booch

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.

David Niven

Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same.

Realistically, a lot of what they're doing offensively is helping us. The forwards are doing a great job right now of working low. And basically that allows our defense to step up and it makes the play that much cleaner coming back.

Rain not only produces all this water, it causes people to close their doors and lock their windows. That basically locks in the humidity.

Michael Chiklis

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.

People who have been with me for 20 years know that when I say watershed that means a major shift. I've been a dollar bull for a long period of time, have basically been neutral for the past several months and am now turning to becoming a dollar bear. This move through $1.22 is definitive.

People who gathered here share different opinions, but when it comes to basic values such as culture, health, economic revival, the support of all forms of property, they unite their effort.

Our sense is that the holiday season has not been particularly good so far, that this past weekend's sales were less than spectacular and a New York City transit strike was basically the last thing the retail sector needed.