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A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. -- Lazaro Hernandez
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. -- Bill Joy
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. -- Eric Rohmer
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. -- Isaac Barrow
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. -- Aloe Blacc
I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do. -- Katia Winter
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world. -- David Whyte
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. -- K. Eric Drexler
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. -- Lisa Randall
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. -- Clive Owen
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. -- Charlie Trotter
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story. -- Suzy Bogguss
I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy. -- Emily Rios
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras. -- Barry Ritholtz
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the things that's been really fun about my run on 'Swamp Thing' is putting him in all kinds of different locations around the world, and seeing how his exterior foliage changes based on his location. -- Charles Soule
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. -- Alex Campbell
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties. -- Patricia Hewitt
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway. -- Uday Kotak
Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change. -- John Patrick Hickey
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. -- Philip James Bailey
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. -- Saint Augustine
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. -- Ben Jonson
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul. -- Ann Landers
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too. -- Ben Jonson
I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs. -- Nick Johnson
Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base. -- DJ Shadow
There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen. -- Stephen Graham
The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment. -- Mara Liasson
The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too. -- Dominic Balli

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