Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bastian has not done anything wrong so does need to justify a single thing. We will take care of the rest along with the judges.

Basketball-wise, I see the original Thomas in him every time I watch him play. Sometimes it's like a dream that's just too real. He has that same determination, and he does it with that same confident smile Isiah always had. It's something else. Another Isiah Thomas 20 years later? It's almost scary.

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

Nell Newman

Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.

Basically what we're trying to do is allow a consumer to build a digital library for the first time.

Basically, what they're working on here is a smallpox drug. As you know, the vaccine does have a lot of side effects. And this small, tiny basically New York-based company, with its labs out in Oregon, is working on this drug, ... And they just recently announced a contract from the Army -- $1.6 million. It's obviously speculative and somewhere along the line the company is going to have to raise money.

Basically, the delegation is coming to discuss the proposal that Pakistan had given to India on allowing travel. The Indian proposal can also be discussed at the meeting.

Basically it was a traveling company the first few years. They had no home. They would travel around the county performing at schools and churches. And the group had several names along the way.

Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

Because of the economic crisis, Kirchner ruled by decree for two and a half years, and basically because of the crisis, everyone went along with that. Now he's trying to generate his own majority in Congress.

Basically, I like research because research is like to solve the quiz, you know. Always there is a problem, and I have to solve the problem. So I like those patterns. It's almost like research is sort of in a quiz.

Wendy Rose

Basically from Texas all along the bottom and the way up through New England could be new market areas for the industry.

Basically, every movie has to come and bow at the altar of the Golden Globes.

Jason LaRue

Basically, all of the pain and everything is gone. It's just dealing with the swelling and trying to get it out of there from the surgery. The only thing that the swelling hinders is just range of motion. As of right now, I almost have full range of motion.

Basically Ali is pitching in the second half of her freshman year to a great degree. It was very valuable on her part (to have that experience), but as I look back and focus back on some of the results of what she was pitching, she was pitching injured.

Base rates will almost certainly remain on hold at 4.5%.

Ryan Ross

Because we had two songs online (before the album was out), people were already making assumptions about what kind of band we were and what our album was going to sound like. And that's what a lot of the album is about. It's directed at all those kids that talk on message boards.

Sharon Stone

Because someone who doesn't allow someone to fail and change and grow -- it doesn't say very much about them, in my opinion.

Joe Biden

Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries - we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined - this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a burden than a benefit. They allow the Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver.

Because of what I do for a living and what I do for the economy, and not just me, but all the boats that are along the levy right here.

Because of the sumptuousness of the package - this is a gorgeous piece of typesetting - we weren't inclined to alter it.

China's conditions are not ready (to allow the yuan to float). Maybe in eight or 10 years' time. ... There will only be gradual change before then.

E. B. White

China is the most dynamic country and growth opportunity in the world in almost any business. But it is not a country for the faint of heart. It is an incredibly competitive place to do business.

China is having a tough time figuring out what the language is to allow them to back off.

Jerry Yang

China is a key market for any Internet company. We think (the deal) will allow us to grow from a strong position to a dominant one.

China enforces stability from the top down. Allowing everyone to gradually buy into development allows India's stability to take root from the bottom up.

John W. Snow

China can quickly move forward with further liberalization of its financial services sector by allowing foreign securities firms to establish wholly owned subsidiaries, and by expanding the scope of products securities firms can offer,

Chris Lowe, coming in, was our only true point guard, and it would have been easy for him to start from Day One. But I didn't allow that. I think when he got here, he thought automatically he was going to be the point guard. We wanted to make sure he earned everything he got. We wanted to make sure he was mentally ready as well as physically ready.

Chris is really a special young man. They just don't come along like him very often and it's nice to know that so many people in the state are proud of him even though he's playing at Tennessee.

Chris has been good the last two weekends for us on Sunday. We had to take him off Friday and move him back to allow him to get his work in between starts. He doesn't bounce back and recover quick.

Brian Lara

Chris Gayle will almost certainly play tomorrow. It will be good to have his batting, but it will also be as important to have him in the slips.

Annie Potts

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.

Imagine the feelings of victims' families as they read the list and see the names of victims alongside those of their murderers.