Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katy Perry

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

Rahul Dravid

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Sean William Scott

There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.

Sean Penn

Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.

Les Claypool

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

Lennox Lewis

There is not too much left for me to do, but I am sure there are a couple of great fights out there for me. I have basically achieved my goals. There are a few fights the public wants to see, and that is really what is left for me.

Lennox Lewis

People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

Erica Durance

And you can't make that stay true if all of a sudden one compromises in a couple of episodes and is madly in love with the other person. I think they're wanting to develop that over time.

Joakim Noah

Are you guys ready to party for like a couple weeks now?

Joakim Noah

Are you guys ready to party for a couple weeks? . . . We're going to be downtown, midtown, everywhere, and all y'all better be there.

Emergency management is in such a state of disarray right now that it could take a couple of years.

John Carey

Earnings aren't very interesting right now and probably won't be for the next couple of quarters.

Dustin is one of the strengths that we've done a lot better with. We've struggled with our post play the last couple of years, and he's really given us an inside force.

Each year the recruiting is getting better. Better kids are looking at us, and we're getting more of the blue-chip players, so I think the improvements are still coming. I think the next couple years it's really going to take off.

Richard Roeper

Even after doing a couple of those it never even occurred to me that it would become a full-time gig, ... That might be one of the reasons it worked out, because I wasn't auditioning. ... I was just doing it for the fun experience of doing it.

Evacuation route: it didn't mean anything all summer until the last couple of weeks now I know its there for a reason.

Dontrelle Willis

Especially the last couple of days people were very excited, more excited than I was, ... I was eager to see how things were going to turn out, but I slept easy (Wednesday) night. ... I'm the second-best pitcher in the National League, which is not that dang bad.

Tom Kelley

Estate planning is more than a financial and tax strategy. It also involves the personal side. In situations where individuals or couples have minor children, that's particularly important.

Even if one of us isn't playing well we always have a couple guys ready to pick us up. We just had a lot of players play well.

During the week of exams, normally you don't play well as a team. We're just very fortunate that a couple of kids picked it up.

During the next couple weeks, I'll be getting the site prepared. It should go up by early summer.

Taylor Twellman

First one is always the hardest. I had a couple called back. But my job is to be a target forward, help the team win, if I score, great.

Flores was a sparkplug for us. He didn't just score. He got a couple steals and he got some points.

Mike Scully

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.

First time I went on the ice and saw that crowd, I was a little nervous, but after a couple of shifts I got it down a little bit. I just realized it was hockey.

Fog should be the problem for the next couple of days.

Mike Hargrove

Felix, the first couple of innings, was struggling with his mechanics. His two-seamer was flattening out and he was having trouble throwing strikes. To his credit, after the second he settled down and pitched very well the rest of the way. Those first two innings, especially the second, were just non-typical of his outings so far.

John Brady

Felix rose up and made a couple of 3s on us. And I thought we had a hand in his face a couple of times.

Julio Lugo

Feels good. Two more days of hitting then I think I'll go to rehab. I want to play a couple of games, get used to the pitching. I'm ready.

James Blake

Fernando is always dangerous no matter what, and he started playing like the Fernando I've come to know, the one who can hurt you in an instant. He wasn't pushing like he was in the first couple of sets. He was going after his shots and they were going in.

Alonzo Mourning

Everything is just falling into place. I do feel great. I feel good, thank God. I'm very, very appreciative of this opportunity that I have. And I play the game like I'm appreciative, because I truly am. I know a couple years ago, I didn't think I was going to be able to do this again.