One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on…

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and…

— Andy Rooney

“Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something…

— Renee Manfredi

I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.

— Tom Douglas

All I can do is just go in there and tighten up my game, tighten up my handles. Just all the little basic things…

— Derrick Rose

Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than…

— Richard Ashcroft

Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it…

— Jim Goad

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just -…

— Robert Barry

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story,…

— Viggo Mortensen

When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined…

— Phyllis Rose

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp.…

— Rich Mullins

Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so…

— Curtis Hanson

If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most…

— Eric Felten

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

— Oren Moverman

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some…

— Audie Murphy

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only…

— Laurie Colwin