Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

Here is a classical story of a stock that is trading under book value. AT&T, the same thing. I believe it is up 4 or 5 points from its low and basically trying to stabilize at these levels, when it is all said and done, it still probably will be the leader of the pack. Again, a company selling under book value,

Rabih Alameddine

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

E. O. Wilson

He's a big kid; he covers a lot of ground. You have really got to work hard and you've got to score on rebounds and their defense did a good job of clearing the net. It's basically a dogfight every shot and rebound in there, and they played it well.

He?s a guard who can score. That?s basically his game. He?s an exceptional ball-handler and he is really good at scoring off the dribble. He?s a tough, physical kid. He led us in charges taken two years in a row. He wants to guard the top players on the opposing team.

Here we have three males on our staff, so you'd basically be dealing with all women.

Scott Thompson

Going back in time to the 1980s ... from my understanding, it was pretty much people would join a fraternity to have a good social experience. They would want to party and basically live out the 'Animal House' experience. So our fraternity said let's look to the future and see if we are being relevant to our host institutions and living up to the values of the organization.

He's already told us that he's going to be forceful and preemptive in rate hikes. And so this is basically an exclamation point . . . all it simply does is reaffirm what he has already said: higher rates.

He's just very versatile. We can put him in basically (any event) and he has no problem with that and doesn't complain about it. He's good at everything.

Pat Haden

He's a tough New Jersey guy. Those words mean something to him and people around him. By his force of will he has these guys playing much smarter. They are making fewer mistakes. And the offense has been completely different from a year ago with basically the same personnel. All of a sudden, guys who were invisible a year ago are making incredible plays.

Rick Adelman

He's definitely had an impact on the way we defend because he is a great defender. He gives us a guy who can basically shut down people. He also does things you just can't teach. Every situation, he has great instinct and he has great physical ability.

He's helped me a lot. My game is basically a replica of his. I'm brining back the old school style.

His officials have been basically bamboozling the people for the last number of years.

His memory of the incident was basically nonexistent, except for what he has been told or read.

Historically, I think we basically just sold time to you, and you just bought time from us. And because of this new nonlinear world of television with all these new options, that's no longer the way we do business.

I would say that basically having solely a cell-phone, Internet relationship definitely required us to be good communicators. I see that as a definite benefit of having an online relationship.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dwight Freeney

Just turn on the film of the last game. We basically dominated, physically. You see a guy flat on his back, we're playing physical.

Jim was in his element that day. He was a fantastic choreographer of words and he wanted us to pretend we were the SAS on a raid. We were to go in there, shoot 'em up, grab their beer and women and then bugger off. And that, of course, is basically what we did.

I talked to the umpire after the game and he said he thinks its nerves. We can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just they don't know how to get ready yet. Basically it's coming from long days in school, and coming out and not really knowing what to expect.

Flip Saunders

I talked to the guys at halftime and basically said that we were not as competitive. I thought that the second half they played exceptionally well. In these type of games, it takes a lot of time to get used to playing with guys. Every guy did something in a very positive way.

It (Center Stage) clearly was not making money. It was basically hand-to-mouth.

E. P. Thompson

It breaks my heart to realize that the culture has basically transformed the church rather than the church confronting the culture and trying to transform it.

It bodes well for us. We basically had our sectional meet in a practice run and we get to do it all over again.

Leonard Little

It basically was a teaching session this year. It wasn't a thing where they came out and beat us up every day. We basically learned the position, and learned what we needed to do on every given play.

It basically took my life away. I don't really care if I see daylight tomorrow.

It basically tells developers that if you are coding in PHP, you are welcome and we would love to have you write applications that integrate with Yahoo.

It basically takes the 'block' out of the block grant concept.

It basically spun itself around and wound up 180 degrees from the direction in which it had been rolling.

Elvis Dumervil

It basically shows he's a no-character person. My left knee still hurts. He was talking garbage the whole game. In fact, he kept getting worse. He said, 'For a defensive end, you sure are short.' It just shows he doesn't have any class.

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

It basically puts all of the Weight Watcher tools in the palm of the hand.

James Sullivan

It basically proves what we suspected for a long time -- that kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.