Famous Quotes & Sayings

Celso Amorim

The Europeans need to show real flexibility on market access, ... We came here for a discussion basically on agriculture.

Viviane Reding

The European Commission will help to turn this into reality by co-funding centers of competence for digitization and providing a truly European framework for protecting, accessing and using intellectual property rights in digital libraries. Member states will have to do their bit by providing the basic means for digitization.

Julian McMahon

The ending was left open. He was basically frozen, after being heated or whatever it was and then solidified into this massive, silver, whatever-it-was. And then he was basically boxed up and carted away.

The encouraging stuff is they basically see the economy sort of chugging along,

The entire history of their company was basically on the floor. In one office, we were walking on a two-foot mat of paper. Canceled checks and computer printouts were spilled all over the place. They left behind copy machines and fax machines, which are now wrecked.

The essential quagmire of this book is that on one hand, he tells everybody this is fiction; then on the other hand, he basically tells everybody this is fact,

The Episcopal Church has been given special status that other denominations are not given. In some ways, when Bishop Smith acts, he's basically representing the government.

The guys went inside, and they made it about ten or 15 feet inside before they were basically surrounded by fire.

O. J. Simpson

The headline was a lot weaker than expected but if you look at the underlying numbers, basically the weakness was entirely in the transportation sector and relates to a drop in Boeing orders.

The high beta sectors, such as technology and basic resources, that have led the market rally since September 11 look somewhat overvalued.

The historical irony is that a step that is basically within the discourse of the left is being carried out by a right-wing leader. It is as significant as Richard Nixon going to China.

Bill Ford

The hardest part is getting used to the military lifestyle and being told what to do. For us, basic training will be the most difficult part.

Juan Gomez

The growth is so large that they're basically having a hard time keeping up with it.

Dave Barry

The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison... Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.

Jairam Ramesh

The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

The idea that there is a large number of people who, in crude terms, you might think of as being losers, who are basically beyond help, it's factually incorrect.

Orrin Hatch

A lot of my fellow conservatives are concerned, but they don't know her as I do, ... She's going to basically do what the president thinks she should, and that is be a strict constructionist.

A home gym doesn't have to be fancy. And, you don't have to spend a lot of money to get good results. All you really need is some basic equipment and some know-how.

You want to see some of the basics of the city, which aren't expensive at all, like the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, which you can see for free from the Staten Island Ferry. Places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a suggested donation fee so it can be as inexpensive as you like.

Majel Barrett

You would be so shocked and so surprised at the people who are our fans and are really, basically hard core fans. I'm talking about scientists.

You've got to have a consistent, gradual growth strategy, and I think some basics are going to be required,

Jan Hatzius

You've got seven quarters in which the homeownership rate basically has done nothing. It's fair to say that it's stagnating.

John Roberts

You've got people thinking the Fed is basically on hold again. We still have uncertainty in the Middle East and the uncertainty in the stock market. Both of those things lend to a steeper curve.

You've done the basic beach vacation, the basic city vacation. People are trying to push the limits.

David Thwaites

You've basically got steady growth, inflation is not a problem. With the exception of the UK where interest rates are going up, generally you don't have interest rate worries. But I think the markets in Europe, led by Wall Street and the U.S. bond market had gone too far too fast--a correction was needed.

Don Siegelman

You used reports of a projected surplus in the budget to basically promise everything to everybody. In fact, you took credit for everything except raising our property taxes.

Jason Schwartzman

And since we were kids in the 80's my parents could only take us to see comedies, and basically Martin was the star of the majority of those films.

Orrin Hatch

And that is, ... we could file a motion to adjourn with the following language: that basically we ... acknowledge the impeachment vote of the House, we acknowledge, if this is true, that we do not have or even have a chance of having 67 votes for conviction, and we acknowledge that the impeachment vote in the House is the highest form of censure or condemnation for this president's despicable acts. And if you do that, that basically adjourns. It ends the battle.

And so they had to live with all that uncertainty. I was basically unconscious for 12 days of it, and then I was going in and out of delirium for another five weeks. ... I didn't have to live through the worst, and they did.

Flip Saunders

And sometimes the basic plays are the ones that he doesn't make. Those are the ones I get frustrated with.

All week long we talked about executing better and about being football players, not spectators. We kept it simple. We got back to basics and got after it.

All we can do is basic stuff at this point.

Tom Coburn

All this is confirmation we will see breakthroughs without compromising ethical standards. We're not going to have to go that way if we can just be patient and fund the basic science.