Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think early on he knew the prognosis wasn't good. He was basically incapacitated. He couldn't play music, he couldn't paint and after awhile, he couldn't read.

Mark Loretta

I think double-play combinations are probably a little bit overplayed. You basically catch it and throw it and catch it again. Whoever it is, we'll probably only need a week in Spring Training to get in sync.

Flip Saunders

I think everyone is getting confidence in Mo. He makes spectacular plays at both ends of the court. It's just the basic ones that he needs to work on. That's the frustrating part.

I saw it many years ago back home. I tried it a couple of times in practice just for fun. And I saw that Olie was basically unbelievable. Everybody tried everything - shots, moves - and basically nothing worked. So I said maybe that's going to surprise him a little bit. And it did.

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.

Evangeline Lilly

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

Mike Easley

I say to these visitors to North Carolina, you will find the basics of food, water and shelter, but you will also find compassion and caring, ... We are here to help you through this terrible time.

Irving has been training and from what I understand he is healing quite well. Batting-wise we still have to see how it goes but from what I understand things seem to be okay. His finger was given two to three weeks to heal and that time is about up. So basically I feel that he is okay.

Jeffrey Zeldman

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.

Sheryl Swoopes

I was at a point in my life where I am just tired of having to pretend to be somebody I am not. I was basically living a lie. For the last seven, eight years, I was basically waiting to exhale.

Dan Shechtman

I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

Michael Strahan

It is something like basically getting stabbed in the heart. These are the type of games you look back on at the end of the season and just hope they don't hurt you.

Chris Long

I thought we had to keep them off the free-throw line. We didn't do that. That was basically the difference in the game.

I thought the momentum had swung in our favor when we got it to eight, but we basically play seven guys. (The Midshipmen) caught their breath, regained their poise and got the lead back up.

Flip Saunders

I thought the first unit played well in both of their stints. They basically took control in the third quarter.

Billy Donovan

I thought that they basically beat us in just about every facet of the game. For whatever reason, we didn't have it tonight, and I think as individuals, as a team, as a coaching staff, we have to take a level of responsibility in this performance.

I think we're going at least up to the old highs by the middle of September. I think this is still basically a big-cap, blue chip market.

I think we kinda got down on ourselves when they got up on us 2-0 and then that soft goal at the end, but basically we played them pretty even in the second half.

Michael Chertoff

I think we have discovered over the last few days that with all the tremendous effort using the existing resources and the traditional frameworks of the National Guard, the unusual set of challenges of conducting a massive evacuation in the context of a still dangerous flood requires us to basically break the traditional model and create a new model -- one for what you might call kind of an ultracatastrophe,

I think we did a pretty good job in the 16 months of construction. We're basically on track. It would've been nice if we started in July, that way it would've opened in January.

Ed Orgeron

I think we need to get back to the basic fundamental parts of our offense that I brought with us from USC, ... I was able to spend some time in California with Coach Carroll and those guys. Hopefully we can work out some of the kinks we have on offense.

Justin Gatlin

I think we need to fix some things within the staff and the athletes, ... I think we should take a lesson from the French and the British who have basically gotten the stick around and got it around safely. That's all we need to do. That's all we had to do: get the stick around safely and we'd be in the finals. There's no way that we should not have been in the finals.

I think we it basically boils down to us representing different interests.

John Tory

I think we've had basically 20-to-25 years, with the exception of the 427, where we've had nothing built.

I think what the detectives are looking to do is just basically enhance the chain of custody of that gun for evidentiary purposes.

I think what you have for the last two years is basically what you're going to have this year: perhaps a little bit better (sales).

I think that decision has basically been made.

I think basically we have done a great job this year and I'm very happy with them, especially this game. They played hard. They played with intensity. They played with determination. I'm very happy with these girls.

I think basically they settled down a little bit in the second half. We sorted out a few more things.

I think basically the issue has been (that) vitamin-D researchers and skin cancer researchers haven't been speaking to each other very much.

I think basically he was inaccurate. If a guy's open and you don't hit him, that's not the defense.

I think back then, the coaches kind of looked out for each other. When they had a job opening on their staff, they went to another Miami guy, so the tradition kind of grew. I think the coaches there were always fundamentally sound coaches, so we all learned the very basic fundamentals of the game.

Joe Haldeman

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.