Famous Quotes & Sayings

Basically there are 25,000 registered voters in the district, about 4,000 will vote in this election, and whoever gets 2,000 votes will win. Can someone who's been on TV get 2,000 votes? We'll see. Am I worried? No.

Basically the meters were getting so old that they weren't selling any parts necessary for upgrading. We could have either kept replacing the old meters or order the new pay machines.

Basically the market is continuing its defensive posture.

Basketball is a game of runs. We made our own run and basically stopped them on defense. We kept their shots to a minimum. We just pretty much had the will and desire to get the offensive and defensive boards.

Basically you've got a bunch of traders trying to outguess Mother Nature -- aswe also recently did with crude-oil futures and the two previous hurricanes.

Basically you put these children in situations where they can be successful. You call on them when they know the answer.

Ron Wilson

Basically you can't fear failure. We've got to go out there and be ready and play on the edge. We're going to need everybody ready to compete.

Basically when I went there, we toured the campus, I sat down and talked with Bob Stoops, Coach Wyatt let me sit in on a receivers meeting, then we went out to the field. Everything just clicked for me and I knew it was the right fit for me to be at Oklahoma, get my skills down and hopefully take the step to the next level.

Basically what you're saying is Sumner and or Harvey County could be left out because of the political process in Topeka. That is supposed to be for the people by the people. Our people have said they want this project.

James Wallace

Basically what you have here is a squatter. RIM is guilty of willful infringement and continues to infringe, day after day. ... We'd be willing to drop the injunction if they'd just pay up.

Basically what will happen is all the small chapters in Illinois will be formed into five to six regions, so there will no longer be an individual chapter. This will all take place as of July of 2007.

Basically what we told the guys is he's not here so we can't worry about it. The strength of this program is the team aspect, and they were able to pick each other up." ()

Kate Warne

Basically what we're seeing is stocks that reported expected or better than expected first-quarter earnings have moved up, while any company that has really disappointed has gotten slammed. The market is looking for direction.

Basically what we needed to make sure we did was come down and settle ourselves down on offense. When we see them running points on us we came down and tried to get those points back, and that's when you need to be patient. I think we settled ourselves down and got some better looks to fend off the little run they made.

Chaka Khan

Basically what we did -- I wrote poetry, he took it home and came back the next day with music to it, ... It was that simple. It took us three weeks' time to do the whole CD.

Basically what we did is make it more expensive.

Basically what they say is they want to give us a printout from the (electronic) file. They don't want to give us the file itself. It doesn't enable us to get to the bottom of what we need to know.

Basically what students come to us for is copying and binding work.

Basically what's going on is I am putting in place my own team to lead the company forward from where we are today.

Basically what it shows is that NBC is not confident that Matt Lauer can carry the show in the short term until a new partner gets up to speed.

Basically what is happening is the industry is trying to stop a run on wholesale gasoline by gas stations, ... The gas station owners don't want to under price the market and possibly run out of gasoline.

Basically the girls just hung in there and pulled it out in the end. They just weren't ready to give up.

Basically the economy is sluggish. We are seeing consumers resisting spending and the outlook for the second half of the year is not as bright as it had been. Even Wal-Mart said its second half will not be as strong.

Basically the DOD just, without any hesitation, said, This is not due to their experience in the Gulf War. And so the DOD was just totally in denial.

Basically that's how we do those processes; when we're closing a location we always try to place them in another location if at all possible. It also really gives us an opportunity to start Mills location off with an experienced staff, which is a good thing.

Basically right now it is a personal choice for the evacuees; whether they want to stay in a shelter closer to home, or come here and start over,

Basically people having putting two and three people on Lucas. So someone has to step up and start knocking down some shots for us. Once we do that, then things really open up.

Basically our players have matured naturally and they understand how to prepare every game. We have had great pitching depth and the key is that our defense has been good consistently.

John Cole

Basically once we combined it was like one big family.

Basically, no one ever used hardware-based IA-32 execution, so better to use the silicon for something else. Of course, basically no one uses software-based emulation either, but at least that doesn't cost chip real estate.

Basically my team started the day trying to defend the leader's jersey, but like the day before, an opportunity to win the stage presented itself.

John Podesta

basically just didn't care if we followed Justice Department guidelines.

Basically I want to teach these lads to stay out of court and grow up to be decent members of the community.