Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aidan Gillen

There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

Greg van Eekhout

I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.

Ice T

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.

Francesca Annis

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Evan Williams

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

Flea

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

Conor Oberst

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

Jane Goodall

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

Gail Collins

You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.

Gene Luen Yang

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

Mike Mitchell

We launched the sauce about two months ago and recent sales are up 50 percent, ... Basically we wanted to have something that could let people see a little bit of humor amid all the seriousness.

We're trying to go the distance for a change, but we're basically hostage to these geopolitical events. We're not going to sustain anything consistently on the upside until we get a resolution to this thing.

Alan Furst

Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.

Blake Shelton

I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

Paul Kariya

The power play has basically been totally shut down and that's obviously something we need to help us out. The way the game is called today, you need at least one power-play goal per game. We were getting two per game for awhile, but we're not now.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

When you have these matches, there is an ultimate outcome and basically this match should have been the way it was played out,

Phil Jackson

When you have guys like Dixon and Blake basically have career nights, that really sets you on the edge as a team. We didn't come out with the intent to play defense tonight.

When you play teams that are better than you, you begin to play better too, because if you don?t, then they basically run over you.

There are infinite small solutions. Crises or changes or problems can trigger many of these things which are basically adaptive. We are adapting.

Gabriel Iglesias

When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

When you have a look at the potential liability they have in infringement cases, you basically could save multiple billions of dollars.

When you have a kid, your life is basically over for a few months.

Carlos Boozer

This road trip is basically going to make or break us. We've got to hopefully take this momentum on the road. All three of those games are going to be tough, because they're all fighting, too.

When a young person turns 17 they basically enter a no man's land legally.

When dispatchers received the call, it was basically an open line... making enough noise that the dispatcher could tell that there was a child on the other end.

We run the same defense as Western. It's basically just a get-together for all the coaches.

We saw an improvement basically in telecommunications shares, which do not depend so much on energy.