Famous Quotes & Sayings

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Come back when you have another opportunity.

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.

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

John Key

We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

What Scouting has done for these people. It teaches a lot of basic skills that continue on in your life.

We go beyond the literacy in our conversational English classes by meeting basic human needs.

We found they could be induced to mature into nerve cells, hair follicles, muscle cells and gut endoderm cells. And when cultured in lab dishes, the cells differentiated, or matured, into the three major basic types of cell.

Scott Skiles

We just expect a few basic things. We need him to defend, rebound, run the floor -- same things we've always needed. He's got to be able to find a way to get that done for us.

You have to look at these numbers over a few months. Coming in, we had several months of very substantial gains, ... The basic picture is that business spending is bottoming and showing some signs of improvement, but it's not really robust.

You have a lack of basic management controls. I have a complete lack of confidence in the management of our state government.

With his calm manner, he established people's basic trust in the euro, ... We will remember his personality and what he achieved.

Gray Davis

This year, he's on the right track, and he's trying to chart a course for California proposing investments that will control traffic, reduce pollution and build more schools. That's good, basic stuff.

We're studying basic Christian disciplines so that students can build a firm foundation for their faith.

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

There is some comfort in the basic level of due diligence performed by a stock exchange on a listed hedge fund.

The reception centre, funded by the British government's Department for International Development (DFID), will help the deported migrants with transportation, food rations, basic healthcare, and information on HIV/AIDS and irregular migration issues, including human trafficking and smuggling.

The recent set of data came weaker than a market consensus, but the basic trend is that the economic recovery is in progress.

The Red Cross is deploying day by day. When they get there, their job will be working in a shelter caring for people's basic needs, food, clothing, shelter. Some may work in kitchens, and others in mobile food trucks.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

We have a clock. We're not going to play this event without umpires. And I believe that the basic problem the WUA faces in our continuing discussions with them is that that clock may have stopped before they became more reasonable in their demands. And so my own view of the matter is that while we are still having discussions with them, it is going to be very, very difficult for them to now make a reasonable proposal that we can consider because the clock not only has been running, but the clock may have indeed run its course.

We try to work on the basic skills with them even if they don't have any homework.

We're going to try to be basic in our running game. We have four good runners. So we'll keep fresh legs in there and keep pounding with quick attacks.

You get the readers familiar with the designers, you show them what works, and sometimes you actually tell them what to buy. It can't get more basic than that.

Bill O'Reilly

Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.

Fertilization is a very basic cell interaction, a very important medical, economic and social interaction. And it's also a paradigm of how other cells interact, because every cell in our body is near or in close contact with other cells. And when those interactions break down you can get cancer and other diseases. So identifying these molecules could give us a better idea of the lock and key necessary for everyday functioning, not only in terms of preventing infertility but also for preventing disease.

Han Xiaopeng

Except for doing some somersaults on the ground, I knew nothing about the aerials at the beginning. I have to learn all the basic skills, such as skiing, swimming and inline skating. When I touched skiing, I learned very fast and I realized that I could do the sport well in the future.

Phil Jackson

There's plenty of time to look at this for a while until either he shows improvement or else we go back to more of a basic offensive standard ... and take that guard responsibility away. Move him into a forward place where he can make plays and he can still be a participant in the offense.

Dick Durbin

There's more candor this time around, which helps, but I'm still looking at some of the basic questions,

The tourist infrastructure is standing up well and will rebound before the rest of the city, ... the great issue is when the city will have basic services back to manage visitors. We will all work hard to make sure the time frame is pushed as early as possible, but only if public safety and basic human issues have been addressed.

We've reached a stage where everyone is following the same basic formula and all SUVs look pretty much the same.

We're piecing together a basic network so people can feel comfortable driving around ... knowing they won't run out of fuel.

We thank Senator Danforth for his bold leadership and powerful voice for basic fairness for gay and lesbian families.