Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The majority of our petitions were already filed before today, so it was really quite quiet. We had some company, but basically they were incumbents who had no opposition, holding their breath for the deadline. That was all the company we had.

The major disappointment was that no deal was announced, because it reflects that it's more difficult than the market thought, that the process may take longer or that the price won't be as high. The cash cows aren't the cash cows people expected and a buyer basically doesn't have to have it.

Tom Scholz

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

Bella Thorne

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

Barack Obama

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

The kid is in a league of his own. He throws pretty hard, mid-80s. And he has a very, very effective slider. He was basically untouchable today. He was just awesome, right out of the chute. You could tell it was going to be a tough day at the office.

The key to tomorrow will be serving and passing, as basic and as uninteresting as it sounds. I want us to play consistently well, something we didn't do tonight.

The Junction is kind of a hub. One of the main things we will offer is the Shipping Shack, which is basically a drop-off spot for things that normally would be shipped to your home.

Their basic strategy is focusing on core brands, core customers and core flow, and that's an appropriate strategy,

Jerry Sloan

Their basic job is to get ready to play basketball and I didn't think we came out with that intention, whatever the situation. There are a lot of distractions in basketball.

The Iran issue is the driver of the day, the extra factor causing the run-up in prices, but the basic thing underlying the industry is that global demand remains very strong.

The key is, clients really need to understand the role they want the consultant to play. Basically each group has strengths. A client has to be thoughtful about who they select.

W. S. Gilbert

The irony here is that we are a labor union, and our responsibility is to enforce the contract to protect the members, ... How can people look you in the eye and think that's what we are going to do if we are basically willing to pull the rug out from under our own employees?

Brady Hoke

Their offense makes you tired, but when you're not mentally tough you don't focus and do the things you have to do to win. We had them on the run. On that third-down play, the safety has to get some depth, get off the hash (mark). That's basic football.

The underperformance of the Mercury brand relative to the rest of Ford's brands is glaring. If you look at the Ford brands, every one has a distinctive identity. All of the Mercury models are basically twins of other Ford vehicles. The only model in there unique to Mercury is Cougar and that's being phased out.

The type of person I am, I want to play them again. I feel they basically hit our pressure points in two games, and did what they had to do, and we didn't do what we had to do.

Alan Greenspan

The type of economy that we are dealing with at this particular stage is, I suspect, one that none of us has seen before, and indeed it may be unprecedented in our history, ... Our basic purpose is to keep that process going.

Todd Martin

These are good numbers for the national economy. Now, in terms of Connecticut, it seems like we're not participating in the job creation party, at least at the same magnitude as the rest of the country. But companies are basically doing well and corporate profits are still strong, so we're getting to the point in Connecticut where companies will have to hire some people.

Baron Davis

These kids have already passed the class. They've taken the finals. Basically they're doing busy work.

These guys are basically taking oil money and trying to convert it into a long-term value-added business. That's not dumb.

These products are basically not service-oriented in the sense that they still enforce the

Robert Byrd

This is our basic document. It guarantees our freedoms, ... I think the American people revere it, but they don't know a lot about it. I'm trying to inspire students and teachers . . . to study it, to read it.

This is my first victory of the season. I basically tried to ride it the same way as I did last year. I tried to really make the difference in the second half or the final third of the race. It seems to work out well that way. But it wasn't easy, as there were other strong riders here today. Winning this takes the pressure off my shoulders, it has been building for the last couple of months.

This is a good guy who basically has paid a lot of money. The mother basically seems to think that she's entitled to more and more.

Jacqueline Novogratz

This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.