Famous Quotes & Sayings

We saw an improvement basically in telecommunications shares, which do not depend so much on energy.

John Collins

We sat down and we basically renewed our vows. I'm not really sure where this got started.

We knew that Grady was a strong team coming into the game. But we blocked out well all night and basically decided to a lot of the little things right.

We need to do our jobs. That is the biggest thing. We need to hang on to the football and make our blocks. Football is a pretty basic sport and we didn't get the basics done last week. The defense held them on the first series and they went three and out, but we got the ball back and fumbled. The offense needs to get their jobs done.

We thought that was basically defiant of what we requested. We felt it was reasonable to have him there to (answer) questions regarding that transfer.

We've come a long way in 13 years. It's kind of overwhelming how popular this show got. When I started this, I basically went out and gave spaces away. It grew through word-of-mouth and some phone calls.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

Randy Foye

This year, we're taking a different approach. Basically I think that we are the hunted and they're coming after us.

We also need stability and prosperity. And stability and prosperity is very very basic in Hong Kong.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

Greg van Eekhout

I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.

Ice T

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.

Francesca Annis

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Oscar Isaac

I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.

Evan Williams

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

Elizabeth McCracken

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

Flea

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

Conor Oberst

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

Jane Goodall

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

Jacqueline Bisset

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

Gail Collins

You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.

Gail Simmons

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.

Gene Luen Yang

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

Thomas Mann

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

We learned a lot of things from watching Canon-McMillan, such as our body positioning and laying on top. You see how much experience they have on the mat. We are still teaching basic technique and body awareness.

Mike Mitchell

We launched the sauce about two months ago and recent sales are up 50 percent, ... Basically we wanted to have something that could let people see a little bit of humor amid all the seriousness.

We're trying to go the distance for a change, but we're basically hostage to these geopolitical events. We're not going to sustain anything consistently on the upside until we get a resolution to this thing.

Alan Furst

Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.

Alex Berenson

Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.