Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Come back when you have another opportunity.

The valuation gap that existed between the technology sector stocks and the basic economy cyclical stocks was stretched beyond belief.

The weather conditions really limited our offense tremendously, to basically the run game.

The weather basically gave the builders an opportunity to move things forward. No one changed their plans. But I'll probably change my forecasts for the next two months lower, even if I keep the first quarter forecast at pretty much the same level.

The whole idea is to basically beat the pass to where it's going. You have to have an idea, you wanna know at all times where everybody on the ice is.

The whole financial sector is basically out for us.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

The whole basis for Odyssey Interactive was basically a product of brainstorming at Donkey coffee. We literally sat around a coffee table shooting ideas off of one another.

The way we want to play, possession is at a premium. When we don't have possession, there are going to be a lot of counterattacks and that's basically the way we've been giving up our goals all year.

The way we played, we were about the dumbest group we've ever put on the field here. Not to take anything away from Hamilton, they played well, but we didn't even play basic baseball.

Jack Kilby

This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

This corner of the state is basically the only place where CWD hasn't shown up yet, but we can't say it's not here.

This does not come naturally for him. I think he's basically shy.

Dick Gephardt

This congress has spent most of the year debating tax cuts for the wealthiest that left no money for debt reduction, basic appropriations, or anything else,

Jay Rockefeller

This committee is basically under control of the White House. It's an unprecedented bout of political pressure from the White House.

This comes from my desire to understand why certain council members are abstaining on important issues. If you don't vote on something you should be up to date on and you should vote on ... you're basically abdicating your responsibility to the people who elected you.

This clarity is going to be really helpful to Republican donors. Basically we can say, 'Come on in, the water's fine. Everybody into the pool. Let's go and really get our message out there.'

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

This fund-raiser is a part of our basic funding operation. The level of service we can provide to students and families depends on this and other fund-raising efforts.

This Belgian sports minister has broken every ethical rule in the book by naming a player without any proof of wrongdoing, without any basic evidence.

This basically shows that inflation is not really an issue.

This basically confirms their story, so steady as she goes on that front.

They were just some of his thoughts. It was basically anti-white, anti-Jew,

They were huge and the whole team was over 6-5. We were basically a bunch of college guys, and we were pretty upset after the loss to the Israeli team.

This is an 18-year bull market that is expiring. The bull isn't but the phasing is. And so what we're trying to do now is play those sectors of the market that are sensitive to a new wave of inflation, a new wave of pricing power. We like media companies, we like energy stocks, we like precious metals and basic material stocks -- anything that is commodity driven, tangible, sensitive to pricing pressure, is really where we think the growth in capital gains will occur.

This is a major restructuring. The people inside of Ford basically believe they are betting their company on this restructuring.

Martin Campbell

I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.

Justine Larbalestier

I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.

It operates basically off the vibrations of the throat, with an ear piece. And it also works really good with a gas mask,

It's a little slower process there because you've got to get that inflammation out of there. There's still a little discomfort there. It's considerably better, which is basically what we expected.

It's all mixed in, and that's the beauty of it. They're very functional buildings. We're planning to basically recycle those buildings into productive uses.

It's a little delicate on the short side. What we're saying is basically we think the price is too high.