Top 580 Basically Quotes

NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
Clive Cussler
Basically, though, I’m just lucky to love what I do for a living.
John Goodman
The word ‘celebrity’ and the word ‘architect’ are basically incompatible.
Rem Koolhaas
What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.
Niklas Zennstrom
My signature jam is damson or quince, and it’s called ‘Kate’s Sweet and Sticky’. Basically, I’m a domestic goddess.
Kate Moss
I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And – that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.
Rick Perry
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren’t really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it’s an incredible show and it’s seen all over the world.
James Cromwell
As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
Bobby Sherman
Basically, radio hasn’t changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues – communicating with an audience.
Casey Kasem
Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It’s the only way to break down your opponents.
Tony Parker
Married, you’re basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you’re not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you’re passing.
Mary Gaitskill
But what’s interesting is now – and not only in horror, but across the board – the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That’s the biggest difference.
John Landis
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, ‘They’re just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don’t.’ Gee, I sound shallow. But I don’t react to current events or other stimuli. I don’t read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
Gary Larson
My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
LeRoy Neiman
The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
Keith Richards
I accidentally met Don Callis in Japan. I was at New Japan and I was with mutual friends, and I met Don on accident and started telling him some of my ideas. We started talking and he basically at dinner was saying, ‘Hey, we should give you a job.’
Scarlett Bordeaux
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.
Alveda King
I’m just basically a workaholic.
Rachelle Lefevre
Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it’s got a long time.
Jack Kilby
I boil down people to ‘good heart’ or ‘bad heart’ – meaning they’re basically good or basically not.
Skip Bayless
I don’t think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that’s a strong show, a great fan base and it’s helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.
Scott Speedman
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were makin

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
Bob Saget
I hate phone calls, so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, ‘Hey, stop whatever you’re doing and talk to me right now.’ If you find yourself in the middle of something, getting an unprompted annoyance is incredibly frustrating.
Alexis Ohanian
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy – all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
Shimon Peres
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
I was so surprised because I’m not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.
Shuji Nakamura
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They’re extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
James Taylor
When my marriage broke up… I had just put on 45 pounds for my ‘Shall We Dance?’ character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.
Lisa Ann Walter
Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything.
Richard Cohen
Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, ‘Who would vote for you? Look at her face.’
Maxine Waters
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn’t know how my expertise could be used.
Ato Boldon
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that’s somewhat correct.
Larry Page
Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it’s not legal.
Paul Watson
Gigabit LTE will be an important technology evolution because that puts demands on the rest of the network to basically be – 5G-ify it.
Borje Ekholm
I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I’m the only Irish person who can’t carry a tune.
Roma Downey
I’m basically a musician.
Tom Jenkinson
It’s all about music, because music is basically what’s… been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn’t be.
Pitbull
These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.
Darren Aronofsky
I wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
Keira Knightley
I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn’t get along, so I basically moved out… put myself through high school and then college by working. I’m only a half-year short of a degree in history.
Al Jourgensen
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology – although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
Paul Hawken
I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in ‘Life Goes On,’ and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think – I never had to do anything for myself.
Kellie Martin
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
Jon Ronson