Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Carter

I can't get too into it, but basically I can tell you I did not do anything wrong and I know that for a fact,

Scott Westerfeld

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

Bret Bielema

I found out how our schedule evolved. And with a 12th game being approved, it was an eye-opening experience because basically it comes down to not a lot of people wanting to come to Camp Randall Stadium.

John Smoltz

Certainly we can't rely on past formulas. Basically we depended on superstars to do the bulk of the work, but now that work has to be done by many players or we're not going to be able to compete at the level we're used to. In the past the talent of a few great players overcame our inefficiencies, but those mistakes were our undoing in the postseason.

John Smoltz

Certainly we can't rely on past formulas, ... Basically we depended on superstars to do the bulk of the work, but now that work has to be done by many players or we're not going to be able to compete at the level we're used to. In the past the talent of a few great players overcame our inefficiencies, but those mistakes were our undoing in the postseason.

Certainly there is still interest. Our goal is certainly to increase our presence in the mid-Atlantic and basically on the East Coast in general.

Chad is basically a kid who has all of the material that you need to be a star.

Maurice Cheeks

Certainly when I got the Portland job, there wasn't as much hoopla as there is here, ... I've spent time here. I've lived here. I grew up basically here. There's going to be a little bit more hoopla than there would be someplace else.

Home Depot's results weren't a huge surprise. Home Depot is basically a turnaround in progress, but the company did say it expects the back half of the year to show some material improvement. So that explains why it's not giving quarterly guidance.

Home Depot's results weren't a huge surprise, ... Home Depot is basically a turnaround in progress, but the company did say it expects the back half of the year to show some material improvement. So that explains why it's not giving quarterly guidance.

E. P. Thompson

Hong Kong companies are basically saying, 'Don't tell us how to run a business if you have these problems back in the United States.

Honestly, I didn't know what to expect at Arizona. But I liked our effort. This weekend, you have to expect to win three games. I mean we will take it one at a time, but basically we just want to get out and play. We are sick of being inside.

He tore his shoulder up before the season started and wrestled the whole year basically with one arm.

Joe Torre

He took part in more than I thought he would take part in. I wouldn't let him do the cutoffs and relays, and I was surprised he did the running. It was basically up to him and how good he felt -- so evidently, he felt fine.

He's lost his office. He's lost his staff. And he's now basically a rank-and-file member who has a lot of friends and will still have influence.

Christopher Buckley

He?s an American archetype, the PR hustler, who is sort of basically good at heart, but he?s in it for the thrill of the verbal chase and he?s excited by it and he gets carried away with his own artistry.

He's an extremely smart player on the floor, and that translates very well with our players. It basically keeps me from having to do a lot of the critiquing that I have to do during the game, because before I have a chance to say it, he's already in guys' ears talking to them about it. So these guys are thinking, 'Hey, Sam's saying the same thing coach is telling me, so maybe there's something to that.' So it's a real positive.

Generally I was pleased with the effort. It basically came down to our second shift (of the game).

Germany had priced itself out of the market by the late-1990s. It is basically pricing itself back into the market.

Chris Crutcher

By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

Maurice Drew

But I think I'm a versatile back, someone who can do a lot of different things. I can run, catch, block, return, basically anything you want me to do, I'm going to go out there and do. I'll make plays for you.

But it got down to basically nothing in 2004.

Before, there was always this thing that he had to be careful - 'I'm crown prince, but Fahd is king'. Now, it's basically his reign.

Before the governor opened up the dialogue with Secretary Chertoff, the local feds were basically stonewalling the state. The devil is in the details. We need to get the feds to focus not only on the border but also the impact of illegal immigration on metropolitan Phoenix.

He's special, he's in his own world. I see a young man that basically rises to the occasion. He jumps with the crowd. He wants the crowd to get involved with him.

Doc Rivers

He's just been engaged. We've been engaged with him. Mark and I, we've had a couple of good conversations this summer one right before the season started. We basically talked about a lot of things. I told him on my half I will just try to communicate better, but on his half the body language and all the other things have to be better. And if we were in a grading system he'd be an A-plus.

Rita Ora

I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.

Rene Russo

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

David Hedison

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

Mike has placed a lot of confidence in me. It's basically in my hands what I want to do with it.

Missing basically all of last year, I'm just trying to get back into the game and get some timing.

Bob Iger

Miramax under them had basically become a major studio. We're still in the Miramax business, but it will be reconstructed to look more like what they started.

Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of 6.4 percent. Consolidated volume was basically flat and net sales were up 0.3 percent.