Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard Greene

I really enjoy working with the people, because I feel like I've been able to help so many of them basically get some priorities back into their life.

Josh Hartnett

I play Zeke, who's the coolest guy in school. He's super-smart but a classic under-achiever who opts out and sells homemade drugs from the trunk of his beat-up car, and basically has fun riling all the teachers.

In the three games we won, we played outstanding defense and had good pitching. We have a very potent offense, and I've always said, if we can contain the other team, we're going to win games. That's basically what we were able to do in the three wins.

Lee Loong

In today's world, a national broadband network is basic infrastructure and a source of competitive advantage.

Inventories are as low or lower than they've ever been for the Civic. They're basically being bought right off the truck.

Maria Sharapova

In the second set, mentally I wasn't there and I didn't have any motivation. I wasn't fighting, I basically gave up.

In the next three years, there is going to be a gigantic transition online. It's still going to be a challenge for these companies to basically separate out an online unit. But without doing so, they are going to fall behind what other companies are doing out there.

In the past, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania have basically been dead to Pitt. So now, they can establish a little foundation there.

Leslie Moonves

In that original pilot, we basically shot what he wrote.

In the American League, you're basically sitting and watching between innings. That style, I didn't really care for.

Gregory Benford

In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

If you take out gas and cars, sales were basically flat. Consumers are getting more cautious.

If you take basic skills funding away from these training companies, a lot of them could go to the wall.

If your foundation statement misrepresents the basic statute, then this basic mistake permeates the document.

John Oliver

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.