Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kobe Bryant

When somebody comes down the lane, you've got to hit him. You can't let them come down the lane and just finger roll and get easy baskets. ... That's just basic NBA basketball.

Cliff Floyd

When she did it last time it was more she was going off the old test. She was just happy to do her own test. Her test basically proves I'm fine. I'm OK. Do I have to monitor it? Of course. But there are no concerns whatsoever.

Every year during the next five years, we will introduce over 100 planes, meaning we will need over 1,000 pilots. We will be able to basically meet this requirement ... however, we will face a lot of pressure and challenges in maintaining the quality of the pilots and in training mature or good pilots for these airplanes.

Finally, we have the contract we want and basically it is non-concessionary, ... We had a united negotiating committee and the united membership behind us is and that was the difference in these negotiations.

Fiber optics have linked the world together and made our world, our planet, basically one small place. If it weren't for fiber optics, we wouldn't be able to have inexpensive global phone calls or 200 cable channels on our televisions.

Finding people who are suspected of fraud is basic police work and we have people who can do that kind of work." ()

Noah Feldman

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence was reduced because, for the first time since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqis felt that there was a force capable of dominating the situation and ensuring basic order.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

Failure to protect the basic rights of these farmers may cause social instability. We must formulate a law on safeguarding their social welfare.

Failures to observe basic procedures put our nation's secrets at risk

Alan Thicke

Family members can help support each other to make significant improvements in their exercise and eating habits. It begins with basic awareness.

Both sides have shown an accommodative stance to get to talks. This could be a strategic move, but the basic thing is that there shouldn't be a situation where war could be a reasonable expectation.

Alexandra Stoddard

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

Peter V. Brett

I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.

You have nights like tonight. It's something you can't control. Basically you could describe it as sloppy.

Claudia Schiffer

I have a really basic uniform: in winter, black tights and any old dress that I can throw on. In summer, high-waisted jeans and this shirt, or that shirt, and a cashmere cardigan just in case.

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

Bernhard Goetz

I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.

Bernhard Goetz

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

Ben Bernanke

At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.

Ben Mendelsohn

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

Bill Bryson

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.

Banks

I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

The passage of this ordinance is a victory for all people living in King County, because it recognizes that 'equal treatment under the law' is a basic right for every citizen.

The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.

The philosophy of this place is general cooking for people who cook for the people they love. This is basic cooking for people you care about.

Paul Kariya

The power play has basically been totally shut down and that's obviously something we need to help us out. The way the game is called today, you need at least one power-play goal per game. We were getting two per game for awhile, but we're not now.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

When you have these matches, there is an ultimate outcome and basically this match should have been the way it was played out,

Phil Jackson

When you have guys like Dixon and Blake basically have career nights, that really sets you on the edge as a team. We didn't come out with the intent to play defense tonight.

When you play teams that are better than you, you begin to play better too, because if you don?t, then they basically run over you.

There are infinite small solutions. Crises or changes or problems can trigger many of these things which are basically adaptive. We are adapting.