Famous Quotes & Sayings

Basically he did the wrong thing for the right reason, and he has to spend the rest of his days atoning for it.

Bobby Cox

Basically guys are taking better care of themselves. There's no doubt about it in my mind. I've been around for 40 years, and I see that.

Basically for personal reasons he chose to put his hand up.

Basically everything was, 'Be smart,' ... Just be smart about everything you do, on and off the field.

Basically everything that has to do with a yard, we'll do and if we can't, we'll try.

Basically 'duty-free' means a shop has promised that they will not compete with shops outside the airport, i.e. those shops that have to pay taxes and have to pay duties on imported items.

Zhu Rongji

basically completed the reform of its government structure.

Umberto Guidoni

Basically checking the, some of the spec on the computer and also using the visual cue that we have in order to help him in driving the arm.

Basically at this point what we need to do is put all the facilities in place to manage the tens of thousands of people who will be here for a little more than a week.

Basically a situation where you can allocate a set of resources to a virtualized 'cluster' made up of multiple machines linked by a network (i.e. like a LAN or the internet). That goal is still years away.

Mike Harris

Basically anything you can get in a house you can get in a houseboat.

Basically any Japanese stocks can be bought. Strong output is having a ripple effect on other things such as wages and consumption.

Basically all they have right now is the clothes on their back. All their Christmas stuff was in there. Everything. Looks like the house is going to be totally destroyed. They're not going to have anything left.

Basically a darker suit. For guys they would rather have a white shirt or light blue shirt. For girls, they say nothing too over the top.

Lil Jon

Basically 50 and Scrappy were already good friends, ... While we were out on tour, 50 came to me with the business proposition, and we sat down and worked it out.

Ed Lee

Because they provide the grant money, they also control the construction of any work that happens in the courthouse and they basically tell us what we get to do,

Chinatown is basically burned down, there are only a couple of shops left standing. Right up to this morning looting is still continuing.

I'm a happy guy. We went from a position where we were basically searching for a guy last year. We didn't have a guy pretty much throughout the year. ... Now it gives us more opportunities to get other guys on the field, and Devin, we're real excited about him.

Sufjan Stevens

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Joe Dubuque

My high school coach convinced me to go. He said it's basically like a paid vacation and I was like 'OK.' I came out here and knew it was the right place.

Now, that's basically the same statement that was reported in the newspapers.

Negative sentiment has basically led to across-the-board declines, very few stocks have escaped unscathed.

Frelinghuysen basically said Murtha was helping the terrorists. The debate that day was about repudiating John Murtha.

Frelinghuysen basically said Murtha was helping the terrorists, ... The debate that day was about repudiating John Murtha.

Free throws are one of those fundamental things we did not do well. We're basically all juniors and a sophomore, and we're learning. Every day is a learning experience. We don't like losing while we're learning, but tonight they just beat us start to finish.

Franklin had another fantastic quarter basically on the back of its international funds.

Four of the 12 were doing the mileage runs. They just basically got off the plane, got their boarding pass, and got back on.

From that perspective, Miller looks like a good chairman. But he was basically fired.

Adam Pally

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

Tiger Woods

Funky just basically took over. The last hole and I had a four-iron in my hand and I figured I could make four from there, but I just didn't do it.

From watching film, they're basically going to play a 2-3 zone (on defense). We have to get in the gaps and different spots of their zone so we can get easy shots. We're going to try to play inside-out and try to exploit their weaknesses.

Jim Finn

From this point on, it's basically a single-elimination tournament.

If an outbreak happened in Nova Scotia, we would be able to respond to it basically immediately.