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.

Anwar Robinson

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

Ruth Reichl

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

I'm basically trying to play as physical as I can . . . trying to make plays, disrupt things. I don't know what stats show so far but I know I'm doing the best I can, no doubt about it. I feel pretty good.

Ira Sachs

I'm basically making the same film over and over again,

Marcus McNeill

I'm basically living a dream. I'll get a chance to play professional football, which is what I've always wanted to do. I'll spend draft day at my family's house. We'll have a barbecue, invite all our friends over. I'm going to have fun. This is the fun part.

Rita Ora

I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

Ray Stevens

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

Julianne Moore

I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable.

If there is no food, there is no water, there is no basic life-providing resources, as an officer you want to just look the other way,

Estelle

If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.

If the plans stay as is, we're going to have to find some other place to go. Basically our club will be in severe financial straits. And I know it will be hard for the canoe club as well.

Dave Mason

If the record company won't let you put a record out, then you've nothing to promote, and they're not going to help you out with the tour budget if you've nothing to promote. So basically we were kind of trapped. And all the songs we would have written would have been owned by Mercury until they released us. So what do you do? It's kind of like a prison sentence. You are at their beck and call a little.

Jeffrey Tate

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Maajid Nawaz

If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

Miroslav Volf

If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.

If she was a regular contributor, and especially if she had built up a good reputation, her readers have a right to expect that she'd follow basic journalistic principles.

I had a long talk with the guys that the entire school year just comes down basically to one week. I think we're focused on our objective right now, and the bottom line is we just need to win. If we just take care of our own business, we're OK, and I think we're capable of that.

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.

I know how hard he had to work this summer. He just got back to basics and started going by feel instead of being so technical.

I heard it was basically a done deal.

I healed up well. They say some people heal faster than expected sometimes. I spoke with the doctor in Philadelphia who did the surgery and he said, 'Do what you can.' He basically released me to go and practice and do what I can out on the field, as long as I'm pain-free. And it's been pain-free this whole week, and the latter part of last week. So, I'm just trying to heal up and get better every day, day in and day out.

Fred Couples

I held us back, ... basically said, 'Just hit it and we'll go find it. I'll carry us.'

Jasper Fforde

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

Tonya Harding

I have put a lot of effort into boxing. This is not just a one-fight thing. I am making it my second career. I am not working eight-nine hours a day for nothing. I am 32 and just getting started, but I have the basics down. I know I still have a lot to learn. I feel I am continuing to improve everyday. I think I can take a punch okay because I have got hit pretty hard in sparring. I feel I can fight for three or four years.