Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Mason

If the record company won't let you put a record out, then you've nothing to promote, and they're not going to help you out with the tour budget if you've nothing to promote. So basically we were kind of trapped. And all the songs we would have written would have been owned by Mercury until they released us. So what do you do? It's kind of like a prison sentence. You are at their beck and call a little.

Jeffrey Tate

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Miroslav Volf

If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.

I had a long talk with the guys that the entire school year just comes down basically to one week. I think we're focused on our objective right now, and the bottom line is we just need to win. If we just take care of our own business, we're OK, and I think we're capable of that.

Bob Beauprez

If you don't enforce that law, you basically put up a sign that says if you get here, you're free.

Harry Shearer

If you can sit through The Aristocrats and laugh at it, you come out the other end realizing that to be made to laugh at it robs the telling of it of the power to shock and sting. It's why (word-abusing comic George) Carlin is in the movie. It's basically a lesson about words, how we can give power to words and take it back. Comedy lubricates that transaction sometimes.

If you can profuse, or basically run a solution with an antifreeze protein and flood an organ with it, you might then be able to store it at lower temperatures and the antifreeze would prevent the organ from actually freezing,

If you're a senior citizen, that (station alignment) basically takes you out of the running.

If you're overweight, you basically live three years less ... and if you're obese, you live approximately six to seven years less.

If you read between the lines, in a dry and subtle way, (the Times report) raises tremendous concerns about the leadership at the paper, ... Miller basically hijacked the newspaper.

If you open them up for deer hunting, you're basically closing them for two months,

If you look at our portfolio that we run here with a three-year track record, basically it's equal to the S&P the last three years. This year we're down about 1.8, 1.9 percent versus an S&P that's significantly more than that down.

If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.

Jack Reed

if you've got competent units ... they're basically militias in national uniforms, and you're uncertain of whose orders they're taking, that's not the security force you want.

In those days, we'd get a bunch of copies of an old game that people would donate, missing pieces and parts, and we'd take all those copies and make them into complete sets. We did that for a while, and then we basically caught on to the idea of offering something new to American consumers.

Reggie Bush

I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.

Maria Sharapova

I kind of gave it all I had in the tiebreaker and just basically ran out of gas in the third set. Physically, I have to get a lot better and play these three-setters where the points are going to go on and on. Today's match is a great example that it's physical.

I knew Coo Coo basically all of my life. He was a good man, a good race car driver. One of the first memories I had of him was in 1967 when my daddy crashed in a modified race at Nashville and was injured really bad. Coo Coo pulled him out of the car.

I'm really optimistic. We know we have a good, solid package. It will hopefully be easier for us compared to other teams because we've already won the race, so we know basically how to do it. However, there's a new challenge, a new year, a lot more drivers and a lot more teams.

I'm really not the coach here, I'm basically a supervisor.

Marko Jaric

I'm just trying to play through this. I was basically sitting on the bench for the last two months, so I'm still excited to get out there and play.

Bill Elliott

I'm just trying to help her what little I can, because it's been a little while since I've run here, but it's still all basically the same.

I'm out of my head about this. I cannot believe we got all these guys. We got basically everybody we wanted. We got some really great players. This is going to be fun.

Jeffrey Loria

I'm optimistic and hopeful that a new stadium will materialize. I'm basically an optimistic person. But some of that optimism disappeared in the last year.

Harold Prince

I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

I'm just glad we're getting back up toward my part of the country. And they're great fisheries. I basically got my start in the Federation (Nation) on those lakes.

If makers don't invest now it basically means they are giving up on the game. It's kind of like poker. But there is no way all of the TV makers will end up happy. At some point in the future, overcapacity will emerge and there will be a shakeout.

Steve Francis

I haven't been able to practice. I felt like a new player who was basically thrown into the game with little experience.

I had to get out because basically it was in flames, on fire, so I got out, I got over the back and luckily enough someone put me out,

I had to basically train my wife how to save herself and leave me behind.

I had this episode, sudden death, where basically I died.

Jane Krakowski

I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.

I never thought about it until I broke my leg and realized I have to get insurance, ... The more I was traveling and doing work I realized I did need that, basically to protect my investment, which is myself.