Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thalia

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

Trevor Moore

A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.

Tony Fernandes

In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion, and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house.

Bernardo Bertolucci

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

Sara Paxton

Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time.

Taryn Manning

There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

B. F. Skinner

I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Right now, it's really hard to say who is a leader in this digital entertainment space basically because ... it's like everybody is in the last place.

Right now, I'm basically back to basics and working my way back up. Just got to be patient. It's going to take time.

People who are grabbing that brown sugar because they think it's healthier are basically deluding themselves.

Marc Chandler

My sense is we're basically moving sideways. All we did today is chop around.

My school's basically under water now, ... I don't know how long I'm going to be here, but it's going to take a long time for things to get back to the way they were.

Brittany Snow

On 'Nip/Tuck,' I was a Nazi, so basically for, like, six months. I went into this place where I was wearing a lot of black. Everyone has a dark side, and I can channel that.

One of the biggest challenges was the deployment. For the winter games, we have to deploy IT systems in the mountains. It's freezing, and computers don't really like cold or humidity. But you're basically surrounded by snow.

Andrea M. Ghez

One of the key differences between galaxies with super massive black holes is whether or not the black holes are lit up, because they are basically bingeing on a lot of material in its surroundings.

I was happy for Ben Rhoda getting his 1,000th point tonight and the way he got the put back which basically (sealed the deal) in the game.

I was surprised we did as well as we did. We basically sent a split squad there.

Dick Wolf

I was running Miami Vice, but it wasn't my show so I got to learn an enormous amount. You were basically getting trained to have your own show.

Jeff Garcia

I was so frustrated, so angry, so disappointed in everything that was taking place, that it was basically coming to a boiling point.

Annalee Newitz

Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

Jeff Suppan

Mentally, I think is the key, staying mentally prepared in a number of ways. One, just visualizing that you're out there. When you're watching the game, seeing the pitch that you would throw and just trying to put yourself in the situation because it has been a while since I've thrown. That's basically what I've been doing.

Menendez has a fund raiser, and basically everyone donates to him. It's the way of business in Hudson County.

Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.

Me and Mike, we've been friends for a long time. He and Antoine (Walker) basically took me under their wing when I first got in the league. Basically he said he's been watching me and I've really been playing well. He's just trying to keep me positive about the situation.

Carlos Arroyo

Me and him were talking a lot about us coming here and him having an opportunity here. And basically what he was telling me was he wants to get the love for basketball back. That means a lot to players who don't get a chance to play.

Mead works very slowly. Sometimes a grape ferment will basically be done in a week or so, whereas the mead you see out there has been bubbling for months, and it will keep bubbling for months.

Sania Mirza

My injury happened during the match, ... I went to hit an overhand and it felt like I basically hyper-extended my back. I couldn't really move very well after that, and it felt very stiff.

My main goal was to try to start off quick and just hit fairways and greens and basically do what I've been doing,

My main focus at the start of the season was basically to have the best senior year possible for Southwest Missouri State. I really didn't take into consideration the draft that much. I just wanted to help my team win basketball games. Once our season run was over, that's when I really started looking into where I might be going, or if I would go anywhere, so that's when I really started focusing on the next step.

My lawyer is going to court, and that's basically where it is now. My take, and I hope the people in power agree, is that we should stay.

Joe Nathan

Obviously, we've got a lot of work to do. But if we lose this series, we're basically out of it. To win this series shows we're still in it and shows we've still got some fight left in us.

Of course there will always be some expansion of security and contraction of security as information is developed, but basically security has been the same since the 11th.

Mark Billingham

Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.