Basic Quotes

2162 quotes by 1594 authors

The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I… — Mikal Cronin
I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy. — Joan Juliet Buck
The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole. — Bob Barton
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. — Bjorn Ulvaeus
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow… — Art Donovan
Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more… — Ann Shulgin
I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical… — Samuel Wilson
I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids… — Ishmael Beah
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place… — Emily Oster
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say. — Daniel Alarcon
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we… — Christmas Humphreys
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any… — Ayn Rand
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all… — Thomas Sowell
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through… — Adrian Bejan
Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example… — Ezekiel Emanuel
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't… — Antony Sher
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself. — Criss Jami
An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to… — Ken Wilber
The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because… — Wilfrid Sheed
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country… — Pierre Trudeau

Who Wrote These Basic Quotes

1,594 authors contributed a total of 2,162 Basic Quotes, led by these top contributors: