Basket Quotes

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.

I was an emotional basket case.

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.