Famous Quotes & Sayings

Always could get somebody's goat if you just talk about his mama, and that's basically what you have here.

A lot of people would be ducking to go up on that stage with some of the issues that local people are having with their own insurance companies. These folks are willing to come up and basically take a stand, go up on the podium and say, 'We're here to help, and we want to be a part of the recovery.' ... And that to me takes guts and courage and I think it's a good sign.

George Will

American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.

American business is turning its back on the defined benefit pension system. They're basically leaving the employees who built these companies in the dust.

Pat Summitt

They know as a team they have to get better. We've been talking about this now for four games going into the Duke game as a staff and just basically trying to send out a warning signal to this team.

They might as well have come up and demanded my wallet with a gun, as far as I'm concerned, because that's basically what they did.

You've had this long-term recovery and basically there aren't too many people in the United States who need anything more,

You see this trend a lot in the film industry, where talented young directors are discovered by the industry, which then puts a bunch of money in their hands and they end up making a lot of junk basically a bunch of eye candy that ends up looking like a really good video game on the screen.

Michael Dell

You see, all these devices are basically complementary to the PC,

You scream, you cry. But I just basically sat with her, and I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful,'

Flip Saunders

You saw both teams as basically who they are -- meat-and-potato teams. Maybe this is why the game wasn't hyped as much. This is what basketball was meant to be like -- play defense, play team basketball.

Flip Saunders

You saw both teams as basically who they are - both meat-and-potato teams.

You're looking at basically doubling the production amounts, but the impact on Archer Daniels Midland depends on whether they increase their production capacity.

You're living in tents. You're basically working from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep. It's one of the most rewarding things I've ever done.

You're dealing with human frailty, people are nervous, I don't blame them. And we're trying basically to accommodate their desires.

Bob Dylan

You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really immaterial.

You're basically looking at two sets of standings. You're looking at who's winning our league, but you're looking far more at the bottom of the league. It's something we talk about every day.

You realize he can basically do what he wants because he's earned it.

You miss out in a bull market and you basically break even in a bear market.

This is basically the way we do it in the fields.

Billy Mitchell

This is basically just a free front yard for them.

This is basically how I've always done my teaching for the past 35 years. That's what I like about this program. I always said, 'No dead time.' You got to keep it high energy and dynamic.

Raila Odinga

This is basically a public relations exercise because you cannot investigate ministers who are still in office.

This is basically a new slate. Obviously, we're young, but as soon as we get on the field, we'll show we can compete.

Trace Adkins

This is basically an advertisement for your farm, ... The dairy industry isn't in great shape right now. The economy is putting the hurt on everybody, so you do everything you can to promote your business.

Rob Andrew

This is basically a knockout game, because I believe the winner will go on into the semi-finals.

Charles Rangel

This is basically a historic moment for those of us in Harlem. How seldom do we come to find that one of our own is going to be part of the leadership of this great state?

This is basically a dispatch center on wheels. This was the first time we worked with the new communications system, and it went very well.

This is an ocean planet. .Ê.Ê. To understand ourselves after all, we're basically water we really have to understand our own planet.

This is an extremely positive development for RIM. The settlement basically makes the pre-warning irrelevant. There's a lot of pent-up demand for RIM products, and competitors have not been able to capitalize on this.

This is great. I've been waiting for this basically my whole four years at McDowell. We got close last year, but we lost. It feels great being on a team that's going out on top.

They got a few of the cameras, thought they were off tape, basically busted out the front door, tried to bend the bars. (They) couldn't quite get through and lost their drawers on the way through.

Derrick Brooks

They get beat up so much. I think these guys stepped up and played well with basically two rookies starting. These guys kept pounding and pounding.