Famous Quotes & Sayings

I do think that in an environment of basically stagnant military spending, four competitors rather than three are undesirable.

David Sanborn

I basically played the music that I felt all my life, and whatever label people put on it is kind of really none of my business.

Amanda Hearst

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

E. O. Wilson

I basically lost everything. By the time we knew we had to get out, there was no time. I brought my laptop, my cell phone, a change of clothes and a pair of shoes and some of my boots.

Mayim Bialik

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.

Jason Silva

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

Maria Sharapova

I basically just tried to hang in there. I wasn't playing my best tennis, for sure, but I started to pick it up in the third.

I basically just told him that if we wrestle our match, nobody is going to beat us. Once we know we could beat him, that swings the confidence in our direction.

I basically just challenged them in the locker room. I think they were more worried about this being their last home game. But they came out here and put it together like I knew they would and hit those threes.

I basically heard a big explosion ... and I looked up in the air, and basically it was like the space shuttle . . . but not as bad, of course.

Robin Weigert

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

I basically have designed the team to be ready for the postseason. We could be going a little easier, but we're doing some very difficult gymnastics.

I basically had to sit there and talk about why I would be good for the show and give them my background.

Todd Barry

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

I basically considered it a long time ago. I told Dave that if he ran I wouldn't.

I basically committed two years of my life campaigning for candidates, building relationships and supporting people all over the city.

I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.

Loren Roberts

I feel comfortable and I feel good with the way I'm swinging. I'm not having to make a lot of swing thoughts. I'm basically getting up there, seeing the shot and ripping at it.

Mike Woodson

I feel a little bit better because everything isn't brand new. Last year the coaching staff and the team were all coming in here at basically the same time. This year we've got guys who know what we want and how we like to do things.

Keyshawn Johnson

I don't want to sound arrogant, but that's probably like six times that Bill and I have done this through the course of our relationship at the end of games, where it's been that play where it's do or basically die and they come to me. We've done pretty well.

I don't think they made any mistakes. I can't put that burden on them ... You just basically have to place it on us.

He's not overpowering in any way but he gets you to swing at his pitches. Basically we have to sit and wait for our pitch.

Troy Percival

He's not going to want to do any surgery. He liked the way the scar tissue looked to be healing. The strength was coming, so I'm basically in a pattern where I can start doing some rehab stuff, some strengthening stuff, and then start throwing in December. Then we'll go from there.

Joe Girardi

He's not going to get the innings he needs. He's a starter, and we need to get him to feel comfortable to where he should be. What I told him is you can take it a couple of different ways. It's kind of a speed bump. You're the one who can basically determine when you can get back.

Rory Kinnear

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

I cheated slightly, ... I wrote what I wanted them to say and then basically browbeat them into saying it.

I'd much rather have this challenge than having to deal with lesser known countries. The challenge we have in particular ... everybody has basically written us off.

Brooke Burns

I do love sharks. The tuna fishermen go and fin the sharks and dump 'em back into the ocean. It's basically mutilation.

Colleges are basically first and foremost businesses. They're not in the business of holding people back because they don't have a certain set of skills. ... I think that now that the data is out there, I would hope colleges maybe offer more remedial classes that try to fill in those gaps.

College is the first time you're away from home, parents, and 'Watch Your Head' basically means to be careful.

Terry Thomas

Collectively the guards felt a little disrespected after last year. Teams were basically thinking that we were suspect, so now when they play off, we punish them for it.

(Colts linebackers) David Thornton and Gary Brackett helped me out a tremendous amount, basically teaching me how to play the position.

I believe so, we're in the taper phase. The proof will be in the times at the meet. There's always a little bit of uncertainty in that. You basically work them hard and rest them out.