Basket Case Quotes

#1. I was an emotional basket case.

Jennifer Capriati

#2. Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.

Woody Allen

#3. When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

Lulu

#4. I'm a high-functioning basket case.

Lia Riley

#5. From the pancake house I drive directly to the county morgue. The contrast is not especially striking.

Carl Hiaasen

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

Kate Bosworth

#7. As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Jason Silva

#8. Um. I'm really good at first aid. Like, the best. He was the god of healing, after all. He'd better be good at fucking first aid!

Rosanna Leo

#9. What was it like to live in a time when one's fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one's country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

Aung San Suu Kyi

#11. Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else if you're unhealthy, a financial burden, or an emotional basket case. Fix yourself before you turn outward. It's best for everyone.

Scott Adams

#12. A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

Mo Ibrahim

#13. Before, my anxiety was singing solo. Now all this weird anticipation and jumbled excitement has added some strange harmonies into the mix. I'm a barbershop quartet basket case.

Jenn Bennett

#14. We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

Yanis Varoufakis

#15. Don't ever, ever give up. Moses was once a basket case.

Larry Wilde

#16. Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.
We need to Rethink Innovation

Tony Dovale

#17. I'm a basket case, I thought. Who gets emotional over two letters?
But then I remembered that "no" also only has two letters.
Almost everyone in the world has cried over those.

Emery Lord

#18. When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

Ruskin Bond

#19. A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.

Jairam Ramesh

#20. Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Pierce Brosnan

#21. From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.

Kim Young-ha

#22. A free people ought ... to be armed

George Washington

#23. Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.

Danny Dover