Famous Quotes & Sayings

Of course there will always be some expansion of security and contraction of security as information is developed, but basically security has been the same since the 11th.

Mark Billingham

Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

Tomas Vokoun

Obviously you don't want to play the game from behind, but we basically had the knife to our throat.

None of us want it to expire. It is only the president who is basically playing chicken with us.

None of those proposals are going to solve the problem, which is basically the city needs to fund the pension system, and it needs a big infusion of money to jump start it.

Only 10 New York Stock Exchange stocks made new lows yesterday, so it's clear that there is a great deal of underlying market strength. Industrials remain the clear winner, as they reached another new high yesterday. Financials had a huge rally and also closed at a new high. Leadership will eventually shift back to tech, energy and basic materials, but we're not there yet.

My concern basically to start with was the ambulances coming down off the interstate and getting to the hospital in the quickest time.

Theodore Hesburgh

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.

My basic premise is that, as time moves along, they're going to have to spend more from operating cash flow, and that's going to increase the cost burden in the future compared to more nimble companies like Motorola. Investors are going to be interested in companies with rising operating margins, not ones struggling to raise them.

Alan Greenspan

My basic concern, ... is that, if we are forced to implement a very significant unilateral tariff, the dangers to the overall international financial system, in my judgment, are very large.

Tim Costello

More support is needed for meeting basic human needs such as health, water and education.

Monk is the cornerstone of USA 's original programming. It remains one of the highest-rated series in basic cable history. We are so proud to bring it to the next level.

Sufjan Stevens

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Money and donations were sent out there for basic needs, like food and shelter. And in a situation like that, education is not in the top tier of needs. And it fits into our committee's mission of helping students continue their passion to learn about agriculture and work towards a career in agriculture.

Peter Thiel

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

Joe Dubuque

My high school coach convinced me to go. He said it's basically like a paid vacation and I was like 'OK.' I came out here and knew it was the right place.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Edwina Currie

Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

The primary purpose of the Stardust mission was to collect comet dust, the most basic material of the solar system, and bring it back to Earth for study.

The pricing is something that has been a problem for quite some time, when the front of the plane was basically subsidizing the back of the plane. The very small number of people who were paying for the very high fares were resentful.

Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.

Steven Holl

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Short term I don't think it will have a dramatic effect. But in the medium term and the long term it shakes up the equilibrium and basically plunges us into the unknown.

She has basically led us into and through No Child Left Behind, with a glowing record, I might add.

(She has a) severe blow to the head. She has a broken jaw, broken pelvis. They basically left my wife for dead. It's supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love. I can't see no love right now.

She did not say the president's childhood in any way caused his behavior, nor does she believe that. I think that she was basically stating some feelings about his childhood, but that they do not excuse his behavior.

She basically won the game for them. She was the biggest factor why they won today.

She basically won the game for them; she stood on her head.

She basically touches every items that comes in.

She basically lit it up. She was very effective.

She basically had no fear. She is still such a daredevil at everything.

She basically drank coffee and walked around between deliveries. She didn't think she was going to have three.

She basically deals with the nuts and bolts of the business. She orders documentation and (works on) the Web site with the help of a Web designer.