Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raine Maida

'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

Ron Wilson

A cynic might say he's profiting from playing with Joe Thornton, and there's some truth to that, but he did score 28 goals without a pass from Joe Thornton two years ago. And he basically was playing on a grind line, a third line, doing a lot of the work himself.

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.

Conor Oberst

So we decided we'd basically go on tour twice and play the same places.

Majel Barrett

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

John Perkins

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

Nick Saban

So that was basically the end of that.

So you pick out a small lesion in the lung and really focus on it, pinpoint the treatment as opposed to treating a larger area, ... It reduces toxicity and allows you to deliver a very high dose. That's basically where radiation is evolving.

So you have a person who is basically on vacation in Las Vegas for a week and is being paid and not taking vacation time.

One guy spread that thin is basically not having anybody. It just doesn't work.

One guesses with the economy like one guesses with the stock market. There are some basic rules, but it doesn't always wind up the way you like it.

We had our opportunities. We had some real good looks, both inside and outside, and we weren't able to knock down shots. That basically was our demise, because we definitely had an opportunity to beat them here.

Stuart Clark

We went out first thing in the morning when the recycling was out and basically sifted through their recycling.

David Korten

And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Austin Mahone

YI teamed up with the Allstate Foundation to basically inform teens why it's important to drive safe. I feel I'm new on the road, so it's important to do these three main things: The first one is buckle up, the second one is slow down, don't speed, and the third one is don't let your friends distract you in the car.

Basmah bint Saud

Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges, as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen's basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law.

We coupled that technology investment with dramatic pricing reductions, which have now basically run through the whole industry." ()

We could only have a tiny party in the front of our bus. We didn't break anything, nothing caught on fire. There wasn't any screaming or nudity. Basically we just realized that we were really lucky. And we wanted to continue to work hard to stay lucky.

Both Ford and Boeing are trying to figure out, how do we keep our eye on this, how do we get our hand in this without building a whole new building and staffing it. The universities are really the primary place where technical research is done in this country -- some is done at national labs -- but the universities are really generally the first point where the basic research gets done.

Bridgeport is basically like being a home game for them. The game is going to be 6-on-5 when you include the crowd.

Brent is passionate in what he does and the kids see that, ... He's very positive in his coaching and a great role model. He teaches the basics well and has a system such that players understand what they need to practice.

Brown sugar is not any better than white sugar. People should still reduce their intake of all sugars because they're basically empty calories.

Jack Kilby

This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

This corner of the state is basically the only place where CWD hasn't shown up yet, but we can't say it's not here.

This does not come naturally for him. I think he's basically shy.

Dick Gephardt

This congress has spent most of the year debating tax cuts for the wealthiest that left no money for debt reduction, basic appropriations, or anything else,

Jay Rockefeller

This committee is basically under control of the White House. It's an unprecedented bout of political pressure from the White House.

This comes from my desire to understand why certain council members are abstaining on important issues. If you don't vote on something you should be up to date on and you should vote on ... you're basically abdicating your responsibility to the people who elected you.

This clarity is going to be really helpful to Republican donors. Basically we can say, 'Come on in, the water's fine. Everybody into the pool. Let's go and really get our message out there.'

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

This fund-raiser is a part of our basic funding operation. The level of service we can provide to students and families depends on this and other fund-raising efforts.

This Belgian sports minister has broken every ethical rule in the book by naming a player without any proof of wrongdoing, without any basic evidence.

This basically shows that inflation is not really an issue.