Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

History says that binary translation basically doesn't work. The day may come when someone can do a good enough job with it, but that concept has been thrown out there many times in the computer industry, and it's always fallen flat on its face.

He's a straight-up, forward person. He's a drill sergeant. Out on the field I don't see him yell much, but he's a real serious person. Basically he tells us what to do and we get it done. Before the game he gives the best pep talks. ... He makes you want to go out and compete.

He's a work horse and he basically beat us single-handedly. But we're not the first team he's done that to.

I think it's a smack in the face to us. I feel like they basically tried to pull the plug on our season, but we're not going to let that happen.

I think it's an exciting endeavor, and we're really jazzed about it. We think there's a real opportunity to basically kick-start a new genre. Syndication is always looking for something new and different, and I think this is going to hit that nail on the head.

I think it's imprecise at best. It's basically a bunch of college students out here.

It comes up basically at every practice and every meeting we have.

It involved basically a street fair event with a tent on a closed-off street.

Lara Flynn Boyle

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

Brent Spiner

I think the idea, from the beginning, was that Data was a machine that basically teaches himself everything he experiences and sees becomes a part of his programming.

I thought he did a very good job of competing. He was basically getting by with two pitches.... As much as anything, he just had a good fastball.

Jason Lee

I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'

I think you cannot extrapolate from sulfur, which few things emitted. It was basically power plants. Carbon is just kind of everything -- it's cars, it's industry, it's power plants, it's agriculture.

Bill Clinton

I think the first ruling was basically the right one,

I think the board feels that a competition gym meets the needs of the district for a little extra money ... basically upgrading what we have in the plan.

I think the difference that separates what I call a fireman and a fireman is people who are die-hard firemen that are in it to serve the public and basically help their fellow man. When (we) are cut, you bleed fire department red.

It is going to be controlled somehow. Hunting is basically free management for communities and the state.

Jason Allen

Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching.

Jeffrey Zeldman

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.

What ends up happening is they basically beat each other up and use a lot of resources. When it comes time to run in the general election, Republicans have a little bit of an edge because they don't have to worry about the primary first.

Mark Siegel

The purpose of a consent is basically to protect the doctor or protect the company that supplied the vaccine. And so that the patient really shouldn't be able to say 'please give me this vaccine' then turn around then sue the person that gives it to them. I think that's a wise precaution for the doctor to have in place.

Charline Labonte

We've been together since May basically and sometimes it was hell and I wanted to quit hockey. Right now, having this medal around my neck, that's why I did it.

We just have to basically hope that we don't have a hurricane come back into the Gulf of Mexico this summer. We haven't fixed yet, by any stretch of the imagination, everything that got broken.

Shaun Pollock

We're in the hands of the weather but basically it just boils down to that we just want to give ourselves a chance of winning the game. At the end of the day it doesn't matter if we lose the series 2-0. To protect a defeat and still go 1-0 down in the series is pointless.

Shaun Pollock

We're in the hands of the weather but basically it boils down to that we just want to give ourselves a chance of winning the game.

What I'm going to say to the guys on the first day of meeting is that basically they are going to pick this Olympic team.

Tom DeLay

What I heard was what most of us already knew, ... I'm sure the report will give the details substantiating what we've all already known, that basically security is not something that can be 100 percent.

Naeem Khan

We think that it will basically strengthen the peace process between Pakistan and India,

What you're getting now with the stock where it is trading, there is a lot of news-event volatility, you get people betting on the next move... they're basically just trading on the momentum being generated by the news.

Sheryl Swoopes

I was at a point in my life where I am just tired of having to pretend to be somebody I am not. I was basically living a lie. For the last seven, eight years, I was basically waiting to exhale.

Michael Strahan

It is something like basically getting stabbed in the heart. These are the type of games you look back on at the end of the season and just hope they don't hurt you.

Chris Long

I thought we had to keep them off the free-throw line. We didn't do that. That was basically the difference in the game.