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'It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.'
View quotes by Bob Geldof

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
View quotes by Alyssa Milano

'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001

'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000

'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000

BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16) -Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000

'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'

-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000

'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid

'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
View quotes by George W Bush

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
View quotes by Hugh Grant

I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.
View quotes by Rebecca Romijn Stamos

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
View quotes by Isaac Singer

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
View quotes by Ralph Nader

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
View quotes by Bob Dylan

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer

He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically [on his father]
View quotes by Simon Schama

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.
View quotes by Larry Summers

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it, if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
View quotes by Phil Woosnam

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
View quotes by Jay Leno

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long way from that.
View quotes by Larry Page

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
View quotes by Larry Page

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilisers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
View quotes by Frank Sinatra

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
View quotes by Natalie Goldberg

Last chance. Basically, last chance. [on what the Ashes mean to him]
View quotes by Graham Thorpe

You hope to have longevity in your career and if you sell out at an early age you're basically stuck like that.
View quotes by Michelle Ryan

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus
View quotes by Judith Anderson



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