Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Kevin Systrom

You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

Michael Ondaatje

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.

Galen Rupp

I had been feeling pretty good the past couple of days. I wanted to help the team out today but that wasn't in the cards.

I guess I would say there is some precedent. Those are a couple of examples.

Marcus Washington

I guess they know we're a blitzing team. A couple of times we're looking like we're going to come, with one foot up and eyes big. Those guys, they kind of panic a little bit, and they say, 'This Washington defense is coming.' Whatever it was, we were glad we were able to back them up a little bit.

I guess the sentiment picture that we've had in the last couple of weeks has been sufficiently negative to more or less push everyone to the sidelines. There's not a lot of volume in the markets. People are really sitting on their hands waiting to see what's going to happen tomorrow and Wednesday when the FOMC meets.

Penelope Cruz

I had a horrible, horrible breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it lasted for a couple of months.

Carlos Lee

I had fouled a couple down the line, and you strike out after that quite often. I just didn't want to strike out and wanted to keep the momentum going.

If the linebackers are playing well, they're not running the football. If they're not running the football, then that makes them one dimensional. When we force them to throw, we have a couple good kids rushing the quarterback in Taylor and Pat (Burton), and we know we'll get after them.

It helps a lot when those guys are out there pitching well. If we can get then a couple of runs, that's usually enough for them.

It helps a lot but it's not just experience. It has a lot to do with conditioning and the depth of our team. The last couple of games we've really been able to just wear other teams down toward the end of the game and really start to pull away.

Rod Smith

It heats up a week before, then two days before. Then it gets ridiculous during the last couple of minutes. Sometimes the phone rings at the last minute with some crazy ideas, but I don't like operating that way.

It has not been a great couple of weeks out here and I guess people are looking to see just how far out we must look before we see a bottom.

It has literally turned your house into an A.T.M. in the last couple of years. That will virtually go away.

Danny Wuerffel

It has been the craziest couple of weeks and that has been the driving issue was finding a place for our kids. The longer you wait, the staff starts . . . what are we going to do? What about our families? Should we put out kids in school? It was just starting to slip through.

Howard Stern

It has been one big nightmare the last couple of years. I lost my joy for radio.

I think all shooters like a small gym. We have a couple of shooters. Hopefully, they will love it.

It ended up working out great. For the seniors, I hope it was a memorable night. They all made contributions to the win. They all played enough minutes. Each of them got a couple baskets.

I think our girls were a little unsure of what they would face out there, and Espanola got off a couple of threes to take the lead.

I think our defensive effort, especially in the second half, gave us the opportunity to win. Then we made a couple of plays down the stretch.

Tiger Woods

(I) just stayed patient. I missed a couple of putts early in the round, but finally got it going on the back nine. I made some nice putts on the back nine for birdies as well as par. It turned out to be a really nice day.

Tom Ridge

I just met a fireman who was trying to save somebody else's house when his went up in flames, ... In the operations center, there are a couple of people on duty today -- 12-hour shifts. They lost their homes, but they know they still have a job to do, and maybe their presence will help save somebody else's homes.

Michelle Rodriguez

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

Jeremy Shockey

I just know that I need to be better than what I was the past couple of years,

Buddy Bell

I just kind of determined it was safer to give him a couple more starts.

Bill Parcells

I just don't think he's had as big of holes, ... A couple of times, if you remember, last year, he got through there a few times.

I just felt good. The last couple of weeks I've been in the gym a lot, before practice, after practice. It's been paying off.

Kate Jackson

I realized when I stopped Charlie's Angels, I didn't do series for a couple of years. And I realized that from the time I was 5 years old when I started school, I had been told when to get up every morning, where to go then, what to do when I got there, when to have lunch, when to come back, what do to after lunch, when to go home, what to study, when to have dinner, and when to go to bed.

I putted pretty well. I made a couple of 30-footers at (Nos.) 11 and 12 and that kind started it.

I putted pretty well. I made a couple of 30-footers at 11 and 12 and that kind of started it,