Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have made no indication that we want to go there. Our desire is to stay here. We were basically minding our own business, try to repeal the Wright Amendment, and they came knocking on our door.

Sonny Lubick

We'll work hard at it. We've got to get better at it; we've got to work harder and get the right guys in there. It's all about basically coaching.

We will have to see what happens, but basically there is no substitute for dropping shark's fin altogether.

Naeem Khan

We welcome it. We think that it will basically strengthen the peace process between Pakistan and India,

Scott Stevens

We watched a lot of film to prepare for this game, but we basically just stayed lower than (Tennent) did. The lowest man wins the battle at the line of scrimmage.

We had some organizational meetings and really checked with the schools in Schofield, Point and Rapids. We basically copied some of their things that we liked.

Cliff Floyd

When she did it last time it was more she was going off the old test. She was just happy to do her own test. Her test basically proves I'm fine. I'm OK. Do I have to monitor it? Of course. But there are no concerns whatsoever.

Francesca Annis

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Evan Williams

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

Flea

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

Conor Oberst

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

Jane Goodall

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

Gail Collins

You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.

Gene Luen Yang

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

Mike Mitchell

We launched the sauce about two months ago and recent sales are up 50 percent, ... Basically we wanted to have something that could let people see a little bit of humor amid all the seriousness.

We're trying to go the distance for a change, but we're basically hostage to these geopolitical events. We're not going to sustain anything consistently on the upside until we get a resolution to this thing.

Alan Furst

Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.

Blake Shelton

I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.

Billy Collins

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

Jon Brion

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

Edmund White

There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

Dave Van Ronk

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

Dick Wolf

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

Bernhard Goetz

I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.

Bernhard Goetz

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

Ben Mendelsohn

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

Paul Kariya

The power play has basically been totally shut down and that's obviously something we need to help us out. The way the game is called today, you need at least one power-play goal per game. We were getting two per game for awhile, but we're not now.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

When you have these matches, there is an ultimate outcome and basically this match should have been the way it was played out,

Phil Jackson

When you have guys like Dixon and Blake basically have career nights, that really sets you on the edge as a team. We didn't come out with the intent to play defense tonight.