Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Harrison

After 'Norwegian Wood', I met Ravi Shankar at a friend's house in London, for dinner. He offered to give me instructions in the basics of the sitar, like how to sit, how to hold it, and the basic exercises. It was the first time I had ever really learned these sort of things.

Scott Aukerman

After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

After he won the lottery, he basically paid off one of the sisters to divorce him and she got a $5 million settlement to basically go away.

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

The most notorious problem is the use of torture. It's basically beating confessions out of people.

Leonard Susskind

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

The most important part of the message is practice some good basic common health techniques.

Raine Maida

'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

Ron Wilson

A cynic might say he's profiting from playing with Joe Thornton, and there's some truth to that, but he did score 28 goals without a pass from Joe Thornton two years ago. And he basically was playing on a grind line, a third line, doing a lot of the work himself.

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.

Conor Oberst

So we decided we'd basically go on tour twice and play the same places.

Majel Barrett

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

John Perkins

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

Nick Saban

So that was basically the end of that.

So you pick out a small lesion in the lung and really focus on it, pinpoint the treatment as opposed to treating a larger area, ... It reduces toxicity and allows you to deliver a very high dose. That's basically where radiation is evolving.

So you have a person who is basically on vacation in Las Vegas for a week and is being paid and not taking vacation time.

One guy spread that thin is basically not having anybody. It just doesn't work.

One guesses with the economy like one guesses with the stock market. There are some basic rules, but it doesn't always wind up the way you like it.

Michael Ward

On down days, when people were selling out of technology, they were looking at the natural resources sector and other basic industries, ... The oil service stocks had a few really good days.

No. We are not. We have no tie-up with Volkswagen in Malaysia. What we manufacture here is basically for us.

No matter how many outlets are out there, one of the basic principles of P.R. still applies: If you don't tell your story, someone else will.

No matter how challenged people are financially, owning a home remains one of the basics -- a first building block in the American dream,

Once the socket is fit to where the patient is comfortable in the socket, then what we do is take the wooden block and start shaping the corners. We start shaping it to look like a thigh, so this is what we start with in the beginning is a basic block.

Ray Brown

Actually, I was starting to feel like my abilities were best suited at tackle, because I'm not as fast as I used to be. As you get older, it's a leg-strength game. I'm able to sort of trick the team and trick this league that I can play inside. That's basically what I got by with - a little guile, a little veteran savvy, and also leaning on my teammates.

The more I looked into the breed, the more interesting they became. They're fun-loving, they love the water and they want to be doing things with you all the time, and that's what we wanted. We just basically were interested in a dog that would be a part of the family and be with us all the time.

Bob Golic

The more comfortable we got chatting, the more I drifted away from giving down-and-distance and the other basic things.

Pete Domenici

the momentum is behind the simple more ... basic findings rather than the detailed ones.

Defensively we were playing scared and weren't coming out and being aggressive. Offensively we had to put a drive together and with Caleb hurt, we had to do some things to be able to move the ball. I wish I could say I had a stroke of genius, but I really didn't. When you look at it, we just kind of went back to basics and ran our leads and ran our option and that put us in good scoring range.

Phil Garner

Definitely saw him more in the strike zone. I saw him down in the strike zone more and then saw him go up (in the zone) when he wanted to go up. That's what you wanted to see. You want to see him within basically the mitt most of the time.

Dealers in the Gulf region were out of business for most of the month of September. Basically the entire state of Texas was impacted.

Coach basically told us to play it one game at a time.

Ernest Mandel

Coming out of all these basic conceptual distinctions we can conclude the necessity of a vanguard formation nearly immediately.

They have no electric, no nothing. And they're cooking food by the pots out on their grills. And they're just overly friendly here. And here they're the ones that are basically down and out.