Famous Quotes & Sayings

They ran wild on us. That's basically what they did.

They put three guys on Lucas so basically someone had to step up and knock some shots down for us. Once we did that we were able to get him open in the second half.

A lot of it is clutter. It's basically blight in our communities.

Pete Doherty

A lot of people basically are obsessed with the missus and I don't know really ... she's just a bird from South London.

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.

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.

Tim Buckley

They have an inside-outside game -- they have guys who can score in the post, and guys who can shoot from 3, and you basically have to pick your poison.

Tim Buckley

They have an inside-outside game and you basically have to pick your poison. Part of it was fatigue, some of it was getting away from playing the way we need to be successful and it took us too long to try to get that back.

They have always been very careful to groom replacements in-house, teach them the house style and basically have them fit into the ongoing mechanism that exists already.

They had to make changes to a few regulations here in the state before it went into effect. It was basically a cost-cutting measure that really caught on.

Stephen Foster

This is quite an accomplishment. You are basically putting yourself on the line and saying 'come in and look at how well we're doing' and it is also a chance for improvement,

This is probably the scariest one out of all three of them just because it shows fruit on the side of it. The packaging of it basically was the same thing as a fruit drink. (There's) so little responsibility and little thought went into their packaging and labeling.

The weather conditions really limited our offense tremendously, to basically the run game.

The weather basically gave the builders an opportunity to move things forward. No one changed their plans. But I'll probably change my forecasts for the next two months lower, even if I keep the first quarter forecast at pretty much the same level.

The whole idea is to basically beat the pass to where it's going. You have to have an idea, you wanna know at all times where everybody on the ice is.

The whole financial sector is basically out for us.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

The whole basis for Odyssey Interactive was basically a product of brainstorming at Donkey coffee. We literally sat around a coffee table shooting ideas off of one another.

The way we want to play, possession is at a premium. When we don't have possession, there are going to be a lot of counterattacks and that's basically the way we've been giving up our goals all year.

This corner of the state is basically the only place where CWD hasn't shown up yet, but we can't say it's not here.

This does not come naturally for him. I think he's basically shy.

Jay Rockefeller

This committee is basically under control of the White House. It's an unprecedented bout of political pressure from the White House.

This comes from my desire to understand why certain council members are abstaining on important issues. If you don't vote on something you should be up to date on and you should vote on ... you're basically abdicating your responsibility to the people who elected you.

This clarity is going to be really helpful to Republican donors. Basically we can say, 'Come on in, the water's fine. Everybody into the pool. Let's go and really get our message out there.'

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

This basically shows that inflation is not really an issue.

This basically confirms their story, so steady as she goes on that front.