The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

- Arthur Goldberg

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

- Dixie Lee Ray

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

- Carol Bellamy

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

- Chen Shui-bian

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

- Craig Venter

The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

- Cathy Guisewite

I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.

- Cate Blanchett

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

- Boyd Rice

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

- Bryant H. McGill

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

- Ayumi Hamasaki

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

- Ahmet Ertegun

As with all types of writing, fantastical fiction depends on the same basic rules.

- Arthur Slade

I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.

- Ada Yonath

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

- Avril Lavigne

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

- Anton Corbijn

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

- Anna Freud

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

- Alton Brown

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

- Aung San Suu Kyi