Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Zackham

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

Julie Benz

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

Julie Delpy

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

Julie Burchill

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Josh Hartnett

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

Harvey Fierstein

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

Genevieve Gorder

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.

Eduardo Ermita

The idea of coup plotters sharing their plan to oust an incumbent president with a reporter is ludicrous. Nevertheless, such unfounded reports give the Philippines a negative image before the international community,

Ken Whisenhunt

The ideal scenario is what we have been doing for the past couple of weeks. For us, we have been so little pass that it seems like when we go 50-50 run and pass, it makes it look like we are really airing it out.

Sunny Mabrey

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

Studs Terkel

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

Stuart Woods

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Steve Kerr

The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.

Steve Case

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

The last three spots in the order will be juggled a bit. We have a couple of talented freshmen down there.

Ben Curtis

The last year or so, there's been no excuse. I come every week ready to play, grind it hard. Just haven't had anything to show for it, except the last couple months.

Ian Foster

The last two weeks we haven't been as ruthless there as we could have been so those couple of tries off kick receipts were pretty good.

The layoff will be a challenge. We have some people with nagging injuries so we will take the next couple of days off, get tapes and gather information.

The laws of this commonwealth have not endowed non-residents with an unfettered right to marry. Only non-resident couples who come to Massachusetts and intend to reside in this commonwealth thereafter can be issued a marriage license.

Paulo Coelho

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Phil Ochs

[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason ... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Peter Stormare

There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

Peter Shaffer

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Quentin Tarantino

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

Preston Sturges

After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

Tennessee Williams

I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

Teju Cole

At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.

The first couple years it was hard for me on the court and in the classroom. The medication was making me drowsy. I should know the name. If I make a sudden movement, it makes me weak.

The first couple weeks we're experimenting (with the lineup). We'll lock in the doubles partners later.

The first couple weeks were different because I haven't been around for a while and not used to two-a-days. But after the first week or two everything's been fine. I feel alright, I feel confident.

Dale Jarrett

The first couple times we raced there it was pretty tough, because it was a one-groove track. It's obviously come a long way.

The first couple of weeks, we were kind of segregated.

The first couple of weeks in January are really important. Historically there has been a high correlation between then and how the markets do for the rest of the year.