Famous Quotes & Sayings

You have nights like tonight. It's something you can't control. Basically you could describe it as sloppy.

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.

Al Jourgensen

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

Annette Bening

My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.

Action Bronson

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

We've been playing it for three years in the school and two in the summer, so it's basically what we do. I don't know how to explain it expect that it's just first nature.

We sell deer-proof fencing that is basically invisible from 20 feet away.

Beth Daniel

We're talking an eight- to 10-minute drive from the closing ceremony to the golf course. So her heart raced at basically 290 beats per minute for about 15 minutes.

We've been debating this for quite some time. That one gauge at Branford basically monitored the whole system.

The government has basically chased away all the people in that town. Golo is a ghost town. Everybody has left.

Andrew Mason

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.

Alan Furst

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

Afrojack

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

Alan Ball

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

Bruce Boxleitner

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

Bryant Gumbel

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

Jim Brown

The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

Yes. You have to look at fixed costs and the efficiency of operating systems there are what is behind this $150,000. This money now is basically for cash flows.

To pull that away requires creating a whole new life. There isn't any medication that is going to do that for them. There are so many personal and social things. You are basically creating a whole new life. You've been living a lie for years. You've been living under enormous amounts of stress, even if you all of a sudden stop the gambling, that's essential, but that just allows you to proceed with everything else you have to do.

Garth Tander

Todd (Kelly) was hitting me a couple of times a lap every lap and basically just pushed his way past.

You basically won that first game for us.

You basically should not throw a breaking ball, any type of breaking ball, including a slider, until you shave.

You basically look at we have a Game 7 in our home building (tonight).

You basically know the drug isn't cyanide. You don't know much else.

You basically have to start over from scratch.

You basically connect to shows that are meaningful to you and will be nostalgic to you for the rest of your life.

You basically charge what the traffic will bear.