Basically Quotes

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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy. — Orson Welles
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds… — Joe Queenan
Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or… — George Carlin
Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better. — Claire LaZebnik
Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya. — Miranda Hart
My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. — Audrey Niffenegger
You already said that,â€ Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. â€œYou said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies… — Rachel Vincent
Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through,… — Paulo Coelho
She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school. — Rebecca Stead
All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas. — Jojo Moyes
I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good. — Junot Diaz
Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer… — Vincent Van Gogh
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can… — Franz Kafka
I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I… — Iain Banks
Being the only female in what was basically a boysâ€™ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didnâ€™t compensate by becoming hard or… — Donna Tartt
That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same. — Matthew Quick
There are â€œwell-known secretsâ€ out there and there are people who are â€œso happy they could die.â€ Sometimes people are so sad they have to… — Ellen DeGeneres
I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at… — Cassandra Clare
I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G… — Rick Riordan
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction… — Shakti Gawain

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