All Quotes

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.
‐‐ Kelly Ayotte

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
‐‐ Aristotle

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.
‐‐ James Gleick

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
‐‐ Vince Staples

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
‐‐ Marvin Bower

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.
‐‐ Fred Kavli

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
‐‐ Luc Montagnier

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
‐‐ David Lee

Basic training is horrible. It's dirty, and it's ugly. But you learn it's not just about you. It makes you part of a team, which helps you to survive.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.
‐‐ Alan Shearer

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.
‐‐ Jon Evans

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
‐‐ Nathan Fillion

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
‐‐ Melissa Bank

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
‐‐ Shannon Lucid

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.
‐‐ Susan Howatch

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
‐‐ Al Jourgensen

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.
‐‐ Hod Lipson

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
‐‐ Benny Blanco

Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
‐‐ Luke Evans

Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.
‐‐ Rau'Shee Warren

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.
‐‐ Lindsay Fox

Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.
‐‐ Stephen Dorff

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
‐‐ Evan Dando

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
‐‐ Nate Silver

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
‐‐ James McAvoy

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
‐‐ Matt Groening

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.
‐‐ Edward Ruscha

Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
‐‐ Azar Nafisi

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
‐‐ Tom Seaver

Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.
‐‐ Karen Gillan

Basically, I always thought that if I had a movie that did well enough and warranted having a sequel, I would seriously entertain it because that's a huge blessing when that happens in your career.
‐‐ Nicholas Stoller

Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?
‐‐ Claudia Gray

Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.
‐‐ Richard Scaife

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
‐‐ Amitabh Bachchan

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
‐‐ Bette Davis

Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.
‐‐ Fatima Siad

Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead.
‐‐ Phil Robertson