Famous Quotes & Sayings

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

Kyle Farnsworth

What changed me about coming here was the chance to win. That's basically the main reason behind my decision, the chance to win and compete.

Jen Kirkman

What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types.

Reed Johnson

Throwing now is basically the only hurdle we have to get over now, which really isn't much of a problem at all.

We just sat here and thought. Basically a mental thing where we knew we didn't do the job and we didn't do our job defensively or offensively so we just kind of had a moment of silence.

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

There's going to be a huge increase in the population of Baton Rouge. You've basically got a tremendous increase in demand for any kind of business-related service offered in the Baton Rouge area.

There's no staff. There's very little in the way of physical facilities. This is basically starting from scratch.

Chad Brown

There's no carryover, ... I'm playing a position that's basically new to me, a whole new style and terminology of defense, so trying to couple those two together, it's been tough.

Pam Grier

There's no gay female decorating shows and basically product programming is geared to the widest profit margin which is the widest populace that has the most dollars.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

Brian Reynolds

The training and effort we get in Hawaii yields tremendous swims in March at the (NCAA Division II) national championships. And since that is basically our entire season, we've elected to move towards that environment.

Sergei Fedorov

I still don't know what it was. I read only in magazines what was going on and I basically tried to break up.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

Mary Roach

I spend a lot of my time on the phone, pestering people. 'What's new in your lab? Can I come visit your lab? When can I come visit your lab?' I'm basically a professional pesterer.

Edward Burns

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.

John Patrick Shanley

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

John Roberts

I've definitely noticed more intense play from our players. I think the anticipation of the next game just keeps them willing to practice harder and to perform every day. Last year (in 3A), we basically knew the teams we were going to compete against.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

We were outplayed, out-coached and thoroughly whipped by a very good North Carolina team. Our rebounding was basically nonexistent, and I'm very disappointed in the way we played.

What the Commerce Department calls savings is something different from what ordinary people call savings. Commerce calls savings basically current income not spent, whereas individuals call their savings really their wealth, their accumulation of all past savings.

When all the facts came in, it just didn't rise to the level of a suspension, ... You can't suspend a player for basically getting a pair of traffic tickets. The whole thing just kind of went away. There was nothing there.

We lost four great seniors and our No. 1 singles player from last year. We're basically trying to rebuild our team.

We lost everything. We're having to basically start over.

We went basically eight deep tonight, and I thought all eight did some good things, especially on the defensive end.

What's happening there in New York is an early curve of what's going to be happening around the country in the next few years. This is a new wave of competition. Basically the telephone and cable television companies are both rushing to offer the same bundle of services: television, phone, Internet and wireless. The sooner they do, the sooner prices will come down for all the customers.

We try to do this every year to move any delinquents in a more positive direction. It's basically like a 'get out of jail free' card that helps get them back in line.

We felt fortunate that we were able to make a basket to get the 11-point run going. All season long, when we've lost the lead in the second half, we just basically folded.

We figured that this was a company with 85% of its stock price coming from its net cash, ... So we were able to buy Apple's manufacturing and design operation basically for next to nothing.

Peter Diamandis

We expect that the first X Prize Cup will actually occur in the summer of 2006. We have a couple of years to get the infrastructure in place, ... We're basically creating a new business model for the whole space business including media, sponsorships...and the X Prize Cup is an important part of that.

We expected a tough challenge today. The difference in the game at Radford was that we out-rebounded them by 14 and we hit eight out of 14 three's. So we figured that with the fact they had a week to practice basically getting ready they were going to do a good job challenging us at the 3-point line and be a little tougher on the boards. That was obviously the difference in the game.

We could design the program to separate cells by size, luminescence, texture, fluorescent tags and basically any characteristic that can be distinguished visually.

Thomas Howard

A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.