Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Feuerriegel

My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.

Nigel Lythgoe

Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Lemn Sissay

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

Melissa Rosenberg

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

Bill Gates

What you would end up with is basically all of Windows XP except for the installer piece,

We did what we wanted to do. We had a game plan and we stuck to it. ... A four-point game, that's basically one possession (that makes the difference). We did everything we could do, they've proven that they're the better team. We've got a lot of respect for them and wish them all the luck the rest of the way through the post-season.

We are not going to see the true colors of people until they come into power. Obviously there are people in the regime who are more business-minded and pragmatic. But you can't be open about having a moderate position. Any general who says 'I like dialogue' is basically someone who has a death wish.

Lilly Singh

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

Lisa Ann Walter

When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.

Kim Gordon

I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

James Gleick

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

When they did score the go-ahead goal and went up 2-1, they just came out harder and started putting the pressure on us and we didn't have many chances after that. It was basically all downhill after that for us.

Gary Smith

When the wall came down in Berlin, the British had the BBC, and the American station was basically inaudible; there was a rock 'n' roll station, but they could have done so much more.

When we practice we mostly just drink beer and go over some songs. Basically the live shows are where we learn. Every time we play we experiment and get better.

Rivers Cuomo

When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

TI has their foothold in lots of these markets already. It is looking to take the same basic technology and pitch it to a bunch of very different customers.

Troy gave us a real battle last year. It's going to be our first match outside. I expect it to be a challenge for us because, one, its going to be our first match outside. Also, it's a very good team, a team that has been playing outside basically all winter long.

Trevor and Kyle can score basically whenever they want.

Trent was a complete gentleman and waited patiently for me to speak with him. When he did get his chance he basically introduced himself and said that he just wanted me to know that he was here in Nashville.

ASAP Ferg

'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.

Yeah, we always have that concept, too. But when you remove a law, you're basically giving a green light to that.

Yeah, this is Seahawks territory. The Seahawks are basically our home team.

You know, fertilizer and energy, you've gotta have them so they're basically going to cut money right off your profit. It's coming right out of your pocket.

We know they like the flanks and like to serve it in and that Love can create on his own. We were worried about him being free, especially in the 18-yard-box. They basically scored on what we thought they would. It was a transition play.

We know they are going to need gentle attention, ... We also know that they'll need basic goods and probably some counseling.

Edward Kennedy

You know it's kind of interesting, our Republican friends have spent $80 million to distort, misrepresent and basically lie about John Kerry's record, ... That's because they haven't got a record of their own.

Unlike disappointing earnings in the U.S., those in Japan do not look so bad. But investors are basically taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Richard Jones

Under the current economic policies and the situations they're creating, I don't see a drying up of the sources of immigration to the U.S. in the foreseeable future. The basic causes for the migration are still in place.

Stephen Root

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

John Yarmuth

People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.