Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Ellison

All of Tom's experience will be very valuable to Oracle for the next couple of years, ... I have no problem with him saying not-nice things about me in the past. I might have said some things about him. I forget. That's all water under the bridge. We're on the same team again.

All of that stuff I went through a couple years ago with my son, it happened down the street from here. And it's not the easiest place for me to come. We drive by that place, and it's hard. It's not the easiest place in the world, but it is what it is. And, like I said, I had a little extra motivation today.

All of our losses follow the same pattern. We come out real hard in the first half or the first couple minutes and then we have a little drought. We just have to learn to get over that hump, whether it's being tougher and not letting the fatigue factor set in or just having a little more heart.

All the folks in the new administration are working as hard as they possibly can. They are not happy about any of this. This year, everybody understands what the scenario is. Obviously, it's going to be a very difficult couple of months for everyone funded by the state.

All these potential crises around the world are helping to move up prices in the energy market. The market wants to pull back but there was just too much negative news over the last couple of days.

All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.

Charlie Melancon

All the president's visit did was tie up New Orleans for a couple of hours.

All the practices were very intense, very upbeat. The first couple nights it looked like somebody had shot them with a gun. They were laying on the ice, throwing up and everything. It took us three or four weeks to get by that and you can see the results. It's a different team.

And for the next couple of years we won't be able to make big improvements,

Elayne Boosler

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

Edward Carpenter

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

Edward Albee

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

Edward Albee

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing -- which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.

The married couples that seem to be successful in making love last are those that have a high regard and respect for each other. And they are intentional about nurturing the marital friendship.

The markets are looking a little tired and we could shuffle lower over the next couple of weeks.

The market reacted negatively to the oil inventory numbers. But we've had a pretty decent run-up the last couple of days, it's been a very strong first quarter.

The major trend in the market over the last couple of weeks has been uncertainty. Uncertainty about the Fed, uncertainty about earnings, and we're seeing a continuation of that today.

The market has fallen a lot in the last week or so, people have locked in some profits on the miners and now the dust has settled over a couple of days we've headed comfortably back to the 5,400 level.

The market has done poorly over the recent couple of days and weeks. Three weeks ago, the fundamentals were improving and all was well with the world. Now there's depression back on Wall Street and it looks like the 'Santa Claus' rally is not going to happen. Having said that, this market is also driven by emotion.

The market has been weak in the last few days on a number of worries. One of them has been earnings. We think that despite a couple of warnings and misses, earnings in general for the fourth quarter of 2005 are going to look pretty decent.

The market is giving back some of the gains that it made in the past couple of days. The market is now overbought so we should expect to see it sell off,

Holland Taylor

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish -- well, I take that back -- there are a couple I could have done without,

Holly Madison

I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time.

Holly Madison

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

Holly Black

She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

Hermann Weyl

Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

John McCain

I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.

John Hickenlooper

I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

John Hodgman

It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

John Friend

The greater the trust within the couple, the greater the opening to share in love.

John Friend

There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.

John Friend

Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

John Elway

I think the thing that he wants even more that would solidify his position would be a couple championships. Hopefully we can get that done. Peyton Manning is already in the conversation of the greatest player to ever play and if he wins one or two more, he probably ends up being the greatest quarterback to ever play the game.