Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Markus Persson

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

I remember playing there many times. What the city is going through now is rough. I still have a friend who lives in Lafayette (La.). I heard his whole house was gone, everything basically floated away. The whole situation tugs at you.

Jessica Simpson

I love that I can dream about paisley, and then two months later, someone's wearing it. I'm basically styling America.

Bruce Springsteen

I'll let somebody else sort that part of it, I guess. But a lot of 'em seem pretty applicable, you know? Mrs. McGrath is basically an Irish anti-war song, but it's ripped right out of the headlines everyday today.

I heard it was basically a done deal.

I healed up well. They say some people heal faster than expected sometimes. I spoke with the doctor in Philadelphia who did the surgery and he said, 'Do what you can.' He basically released me to go and practice and do what I can out on the field, as long as I'm pain-free. And it's been pain-free this whole week, and the latter part of last week. So, I'm just trying to heal up and get better every day, day in and day out.

Fred Couples

I held us back, ... basically said, 'Just hit it and we'll go find it. I'll carry us.'

Michael Bolton

I have to be happy in the here and now because I've seen that every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment, you're basically presuming too much by even using the word legacy - that someone is going to care, that someone is going to look and to listen.

Richard Greene

I really enjoy working with the people, because I feel like I've been able to help so many of them basically get some priorities back into their life.

Josh Hartnett

I play Zeke, who's the coolest guy in school. He's super-smart but a classic under-achiever who opts out and sells homemade drugs from the trunk of his beat-up car, and basically has fun riling all the teachers.

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.

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.

Mike Matheny

The label surprised me because of how defensive-minded he is and how much he cares about the position. That's basically how I'm wired. I respect guys who respect the position.

The labels have complained basically that they're not making enough money on downloads, that they prefer subscription services,

The intention was not to create a counterfeit-proof note -- which is basically impossible -- but one that's harder to duplicate and easier to authenticate. The new designs have definitely improved upon our efforts in detection and enforcement.