Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Jones

It's more than his word, it's about logic. This is an opportunity for him to basically put it all together and come in here and have a very positive experience. ... Whoever got him after those two experiences was going to get a more knowledgeable and educated player.

It just proves basically how tough it's going to be for roster spots. It's definitely going to be competitive as we move forward.

It's a lot different, because everybody stayed together and fought together. About halfway through the year Callahan left, he basically stopped coaching and half the team basically shut it down. That wasn't the case with this team. The coaches fought right up to the end, and the players did the same.

It looks like it was basically one victim in this particular scam.

It looks terrible. The whole place has to be turned around. I am basically taking a hit.

It looks like this day is going to be basically prostituted by people who have an agenda,

It made no sense to us to line miles of canals with levees and then leave a gap like that. It basically failed before the storm began.

Marie Osmond

It's a no win situation. I had food allergies. My body had basically shut down and decided it was going to die - and I'm a tough broad.

In the last five days, we have successfully concluded negotiations with five of the largest manufacturers in the world, ... That's five in five. What they do and how they do it basically touches everyone worldwide in one way or another.

In the fourth quarter it was us stopping them but on offense we basically ran out of steam. Without Jon and Derek we were trying different personnel combinations but weren't able to get much of a drive going.

In the end, it basically came down to where I felt like I had some unfinished business here. I didn't like how things ended last year from a team standpoint or on a personal standpoint.

Andy Dick

In the front of the boat, you look at it as you have basically two things you have to do,

Pierre Omidyar

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

In so far as this is already discounted by the interest rate futures markets, it is also priced into the euro and we're basically back to square one, where we started the year -- two more hikes here (in the United States), and two more in the euro (zone).

Mark McGwire

In spring training, it was one of my goals to get fifty homers. Now everything is basically icing on the cake as far as what I can do to strive for, I surprise myself. It's unbelieveable.

Innocent spouses basically need to show that they didn't change their lifestyle or live a frivolous lifestyle.

Maurice Allais

In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

I like to say that I've never really had a real job, ... But I never looked at modeling from a business standpoint: I'd simply work on things that I wanted to do and sell them when I was done. It was basically a way to pay for my hobby. The purpose wasn't to make money; the purpose was to pay the rent so I could do it full-time.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

O. Henry

I just tried to clog up the middle, tried to be as big a presence as I possibly could be. I basically just used my body to make it tough for them, kind of get them out of synch with their offense.

Richard Eyre

I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.

I'm used to thinking a certain way, making my reads and my throws a certain way, routes are run a certain way - now all that is slightly different, ... It's basically the same offense, but there are enough differences that a lot of the things I'm used to doing I have to learn in a different way. That's what takes so much time.

Bret Bielema

I need to have daily improvement in everything we do and I basically felt throughout the entire spring that we did do that.

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.

Danny Meyer

I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.

Jerry Brown

In essence, it's a typo. The books are really put together from a series of complex databases. For headings, they're in the (computer) system as codes. Somebody basically entered the wrong code.

Steve Spurrier

I'm not ... those walks schools do, we've never done that. We've basically just bused up next to the locker room.

Tom Renney

I'm not sure that we competed hard enough for the first 40 minutes, and the third period was just basically a penalty-kill period. There's not a lot to like about the game, quite honestly. But we'll go to school and correct ourselves.

Jamie Bamber

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

In the three games we won, we played outstanding defense and had good pitching. We have a very potent offense, and I've always said, if we can contain the other team, we're going to win games. That's basically what we were able to do in the three wins.

Inventories are as low or lower than they've ever been for the Civic. They're basically being bought right off the truck.

Maria Sharapova

In the second set, mentally I wasn't there and I didn't have any motivation. I wasn't fighting, I basically gave up.

In the next three years, there is going to be a gigantic transition online. It's still going to be a challenge for these companies to basically separate out an online unit. But without doing so, they are going to fall behind what other companies are doing out there.