Famous Quotes & Sayings

These charges are the result of a very careful investigation of allegations that she basically lied to receive aid.

These brokerages are going to say about the quarter that just ended, 'It never happened,' because basically all of the core businesses you look at were flat or down somewhat, ... Depending on the company and the nature of its earnings base, earnings will be weak to very weak.

The series was right on the line. We were basically playing for our lives.

The Serbian border is, allegedly or reportedly, formally open but no one's crossing, which makes us believe that the Serbs are basically stopping people and preventing them from reaching the border.

John Perkins

These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

Robert Heller

The (stock) markets have basically ignored the 1-percent-plus increase in the fed funds rate over the past year, ... The fixed-income market where these companies do their borrowing has not as yet responded as effectively as the Fed may have liked.

Kit Williams

The state law has basically no effect on city ordinances, which remain in effect as long as they are more strict than the state law. A city ordinance doesn't overrule state law. A city ordinance can't make things less strict than state law.

The state does the spraying, and basically we just have to wait until it's our turn. They've told us it will hopefully be sometime Wednesday. But even after they spray, you still have to come inside by 5:30 p.m. or 6 p.m., so we don't know what will happen.

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.

Cindy Klassen

I used to hate the 1,500 because you basically have to pace yourself and the last lap is so hard. It's like you've hit a wall. But I learned to really enjoy it now. I learned a lot from Neal. He taught me how to race it differently, too, so I'm starting to really enjoy that race.

Things are kind of right where I expected them to be. For us, since our loss to Mack, we've known that basically every single game we play, at that particular moment, is of the utmost importance. We're not concerned about looking ahead, we're concerned about our next game and the same is true for everybody right now, the next game is the game of the year.

The whole settlement is going to hurt the industry in terms of profitability. But multiples should improve, and this is basically why the industry is trying to settle. There has been a big cloud overhanging the industry for more than a decade now.

The whole settlement is going to hurt the industry in terms of profitability, ... But multiples should improve, and this is basically why the industry is trying to settle. There has been a big cloud overhanging the industry for more than a decade now.

The whole scene, it was basically a helicopter pilot's nightmare, because everything was basically wires or tower.

Jonathan Cheechoo

They actually had a (men's) team that was basically made up of my uncles and my dad. I just watched them since I was a little kid. They are all hockey fanatics.

The witching hour was basically from 6 to 10 o'clock, and now we're just mopping up so to speak. The storm seemed to be weakening and separating as it moved into central Iowa.

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

Carlos Gomez

There won't be any real news until next year. We're basically already on Christmas holiday, ... There really isn't much that could change the economic picture before then.

There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio by the end of 2005 save Nigeria. Basically the world, at the start of 2006, will look at who is late, and work to make that process move faster.

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.

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.