Famous Quotes & Sayings

The first couple of tournaments we played in we didn't do that great,

Adam Dunn

The first couple of times you saw him in the spring, that was the emotional time. It's probably going to be more emotional for the fans.

Todd Bertuzzi

The first couple of shifts felt good. Obviously, we're going to use these games to get ourselves ready for the real thing. ... San Jose, to their credit, they're a quick team so it kept the tempo really up. You really have to skate and work hard to get back. ... But, overall, I think it was OK.

Marc Cherry

The first couple of minutes of the first episode will resolve all that in a fun and exciting way. We spend the whole first episode getting into the story between Mike and her and the new information he learned at the end of last season.

Mike Hargrove

The first couple of innings, he was struggling with his mechanics. He had trouble throwing strikes. It was not typical of his outings so far, but to his credit, he settled down and pitched very well the rest of the way.

Jarome Iginla

The first couple of games we were a little tight. Tonight we were more relaxed, more determined and enjoying the playoffs. This is what it's all about.

Bobby Crosby

The first couple of games, I was tentative, but I've gotten used to it. It's more of an issue in the field.

The first couple of episodes, there are tapes and tapes of us laughing because we couldn't get the line down.

The first couple of days we were jumping in the water up to our chests to pull people out. But now you don't know what's in there. I want to help, but I don't want to die.

The first couple of days we were finding people, ... A lot of people were stranded. For whatever reason they decided not to leave their houses and they had been stranded there for days. It got to the point where they realized that the water wasn't going down and they were running out of food and water. It was extremely hot - it still is - and there wasn't any power. People were saying, 'Save us.'

The first couple of days, just kind of hoping that they're going to find her, and then you go through.. it was about 2 weeks. Your life is just a fog.. I was looking into my life. I wasn't really living it.

Luis Castillo

The first couple of days, I didn't know a lot of people. Now, I feel like I've been on this team before.

The first couple months we have been evaluating what needs to be done to reach the next level. We go into a very hard sectional with lots of rated kids. Our guys just have to keep working hard and see what happens.

The first couple innings, we just couldn't get those timely hits. The pitching was there though.

The first couple games, I felt kind of stiff. The last couple of games I've been feeling great.

Neal Stephenson

Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the underlying protocol of the Internet, and read them. And then I signed on to a computer, which anyone can do nowadays, and I messed around with it for a few years, and now I know all about it. Does that make me a technocrat?

Neal Stephenson

Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.

Neal Stephenson

But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.

Robert Crumb

I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

Richard Krajicek

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

Richard Carmona

In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

Melissa Benoist

Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.

Michael Zaslow

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

George Clooney

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

George Clooney

Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.

George Clooney

The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative

George Clooney

I've met my bride-to-be in Italy and I will be married in Italy soon, in a couple of weeks. In Venice of all places! In closing, I guess what I would like to say is to my bride-to-be, Amal, that I love you very much and I can't wait to be your husband.

Mose Allison

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

Petra Nemcova

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

Peter De Vries

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

Lisa Kudrow

To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.

Lisa Kudrow

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

Lisa Marie Presley

A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.