Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've never believed in WAP. I think it will take some time, probably, before people start realizing that WAP is basically just a walled garden with limited content you can give your subscribers, when they could have the full Internet at their fingertips.

We've never been inside the fault zone before. The goal has been to understand the basic mechanics of faults.

Ian Roberts

The place he was staying at was a derelict house and there was a bunch of younger guys staying in it. I basically just packed up his stuff said to him 'come on, you can come and stay with Kirsty and I until we get you back on track',

I grew up with gang violence. They tried to suck me in, but I wouldn't do it. I kinda got sucked in for a while, but my grandma basically raised me, and her dying wish was for me to stop doing that. An hour later -- she told me that when she was in the hospital -- I got a call saying she had died. Her dying wish was for me to succeed. I'm the first person in my family to go to college.

If we don't have major catastrophes ... the rates should stay at basically this level for the rest of the year.

E. O. Wilson

If we had lost tonight, it's basically like Pin the Tail on the Donkey, when there's one kid left and you know he's going to hit the spot. You don't want to get to that point. It's always nice to beat a great ballclub.

John Smoltz

If we had to lose and if one person basically was the reason -- you never want to lose -- but you didn't mind it being Kirby Puckett. When he made the catch and when he hit the home run you could tell the whole thing had turned.

If we didn't win, I think our chances (of getting) in the tourney would be slim. It was a must-win, and that's basically what we put in our heads and in our hearts.

If we didn't win, I think our chances in the tourney would be slim. It was a must-win, and that's basically what we put on our foreheads and on our hearts.

Mo Williams

I got in today and it was pretty sore, but I just played through it. It's basically what I have to do in the game.

Michelle Monaghan

I graduated with a class of 35 people. We had basically just enough people to actually have a play.

We normally don't make mistakes like that. We basically gave a touchdown away, and we knew that.

David Blunkett

We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.

Anthony Stewart

Well, basically everyone gave 100 percent, even though it was a little chilly out here. (The kids) came out and they gave all they had, and I was really proud of them for that.

I think he's basically greasing the skids for the Fed to keep raising rates, and that may not be something the stock market has realized yet, ... and that's why you're not seeing much reaction.

Walter Mondale

I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate.

I think he basically stayed the course. He had a game plan going out there.

Kurt Warner

I still think we have a lot of work to do, but guys are getting more comfortable and coming into their own. We have a lot of guys mixing in and out of the offensive line. You're talking basically the fourth center we've had in four games.

It developed from a basic Judeo-Christian ideology of man being inherently evil, aggressive, and a natural killer. In fact, when you really examine the fossil and living non-human primate evidence, that is just not the case.

It depends on what kind of diet they are talking about. If it is just caloric restriction or whether it is specific dietary changes. Some women will actually lose weight during a pregnancy basically because they're eating healthier versus binge eating or eating all the wrong foods.

James Roday

Look at every show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' fans, it's okay to like the show, but don't be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.

Market players are sensing the U.S. may be scaling back their commitment to a strong dollar. I think the dollar is basically falling in the near future.

Margins and revenue were better than feared. Inventories did go up as we expected but they basically are not far off from where they were last year.

We have said for some time that Windows 2000 will have a slow ramp because companies take time to test and deploy new operating systems. Windows 2000 is basically a second half of 2000 story.

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of service men and women lack basic financial knowledge.

We were able to deliver this upgrade without changing the price. So essentially for our customers, it's basically $1.86 per gigabyte for this high level of storage.

People are bringing out electronic locks with bells and whistles, all sorts of features. Yet our good old, mechanical push-button lock still dominates the (keyless-access-control) market because there is such a strong demand out there for what we call basic keyless convenience.

People are basically happy. But they want things to work as advertised.

People are just beginning to understand what is possible with enterprise search. First, there was the basic keyword-type search. That was like starting a car with a crank. What we're seeing now is next-generation technology that understands language context.

Jon Brion

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

Edmund White

There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

Dave Van Ronk

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

Dick Wolf

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.