Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Straub

Milwaukee was a fascinating place. When I was a kid, it was basically a blue-collar, factory kind of town, lots of bars, lots of fights.

John W. Snow

Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check.

Annalee Newitz

Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

Jeff Suppan

Mentally, I think is the key, staying mentally prepared in a number of ways. One, just visualizing that you're out there. When you're watching the game, seeing the pitch that you would throw and just trying to put yourself in the situation because it has been a while since I've thrown. That's basically what I've been doing.

Menendez has a fund raiser, and basically everyone donates to him. It's the way of business in Hudson County.

Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.

Me and Mike, we've been friends for a long time. He and Antoine (Walker) basically took me under their wing when I first got in the league. Basically he said he's been watching me and I've really been playing well. He's just trying to keep me positive about the situation.

Carlos Arroyo

Me and him were talking a lot about us coming here and him having an opportunity here. And basically what he was telling me was he wants to get the love for basketball back. That means a lot to players who don't get a chance to play.

Mead works very slowly. Sometimes a grape ferment will basically be done in a week or so, whereas the mead you see out there has been bubbling for months, and it will keep bubbling for months.

Sania Mirza

My injury happened during the match, ... I went to hit an overhand and it felt like I basically hyper-extended my back. I couldn't really move very well after that, and it felt very stiff.

My main goal was to try to start off quick and just hit fairways and greens and basically do what I've been doing,

My main focus at the start of the season was basically to have the best senior year possible for Southwest Missouri State. I really didn't take into consideration the draft that much. I just wanted to help my team win basketball games. Once our season run was over, that's when I really started looking into where I might be going, or if I would go anywhere, so that's when I really started focusing on the next step.

My lawyer is going to court, and that's basically where it is now. My take, and I hope the people in power agree, is that we should stay.

Joe Nathan

Obviously, we've got a lot of work to do. But if we lose this series, we're basically out of it. To win this series shows we're still in it and shows we've still got some fight left in us.

Of course there will always be some expansion of security and contraction of security as information is developed, but basically security has been the same since the 11th.

Mark Billingham

Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

Tomas Vokoun

Obviously you don't want to play the game from behind, but we basically had the knife to our throat.

None of us want it to expire. It is only the president who is basically playing chicken with us.

I think they basically have the same team that they had last year,

I think the semiconductors and the Nasdaq had sold off a little more than the rest of the market recently, so you're seeing them gain, ... But basically we're all waiting for everything that happens next week.

I think the most important thing was obviously the decision to take over the land and basically destroy the main dynamo of the economy which is commercial agriculture.

Claudio Sanchez

It is a progression overall, a moving from say a (short) rock song to an eight-minute epic, just basically not creating a wall where you can only do one thing.

Dick Durbin

It is an element of fairness, an element of opportunity. It basically says in America, we won't let you buy an election. If you're going to come in and try to do that, then you're at least going to give the other candidate a chance to compete.

David Rosenberg

It is basically a subtle way to flash to the market that the negative economic consequences are resonating and that the Fed may not just look at this as a temporary soft patch this time.

It is basically (a study) to look at efficiency in terms of cost. They're not looking at any major deterioration of service.

It is basically a predictor on where each team will be two years from now.

Alexis Herman

I think the response from the market is basically an indication that everyone believes that we're going to continue to this solid path of growth that we've been on, that the economy continues to perform, ... Productivity is very much in line with wage gains, so I don't think we see any signs of inflation on the horizon.

Bobby Farrelly

I think the reason why it works first of all is there's a different level of trust. And basically we both share the same vision. It's a warped vision, but we share it. And I think that we're able to protect that vision more, because the people that come at you try to get you to water down what it is that you see. And that is something that happens.

I think so. We're basically working with seven or eight kids that we feel are varsity-level pitchers.

Japanese companies basically follow one of two models: They're open or they're closed. Japanese makers didn't have to make these sorts of decisions when they used to have unquestioned market dominance.

Kirk Hinrich

(James) was able to get in the paint and basically do what we wanted. He just kind of bullied us.

I think early on he knew the prognosis wasn't good. He was basically incapacitated. He couldn't play music, he couldn't paint and after awhile, he couldn't read.

Mark Loretta

I think double-play combinations are probably a little bit overplayed. You basically catch it and throw it and catch it again. Whoever it is, we'll probably only need a week in Spring Training to get in sync.