Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will get well into the second quarter before the job situation really starts to improve, ... That's typical of recoveries; it takes a couple of quarters before the labor market starts to turn around.

We will do whatever it takes to get our message out. If that means sitting in jail for a couple of days, then that is just what it means.

E. P. Thompson

We would love to put (a trophy) in there. We played off for one a couple years ago. We played reasonable footy but we lost the game. We didn't handle the loss well.

When a couple of guys hit three's like that, it kind of relaxes you as a team. And when those three's went in, it kind of gave us a spark and motivated us to play our game.

We would either grow up, mature as a team and hang in there or maybe we would say that we weren't good enough to compete. Outside of a couple of games, we've played pretty well. Your season isn't judged on what you do in December usually, but how you do when the playoffs come.

Kurt Vonnegut

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Kurt Vonnegut

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

Kurt Vonnegut

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

The reason why couples divorce is because one person wants the freedom to do as he or she pleases and the other doesn't want them to enjoy that freedom.

There has been increasingly bearish news in the energy sector over the last couple of weeks,

Donna Leon

There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.

When I signed onto 'Superman,' editors Matt Idelson and Wil Moss gave me a rough outline that JMS had turned in for the remaining issues of the 'Grounded' arc, which amounted to a couple of sentences for each issue, spelling out in general terms where the issue would take place geographically, specific guest stars, things like that.

We're young and we're rebuilding a little bit, but we're going to be better than I thought we'd be a couple of weeks ago. It's hard to predict exactly how good you can be when you're young.

We're trying to establish a program at Clemson. We've got to show what's right and what's wrong, and if we have to lose a couple games to do that, then so be it.

We saw how hard it is a couple years ago. Unlucky bounce, and they win.

We saw a couple of Yankee games last spring and I promised my wife we'd do the theme parks and take a cruise this time.

Mike Robinson

We knew there'd be some mismatches, but there were a couple we could've won, and we didn't.

We knew that they would probably go into her because she had scored the last couple of times down there. Brooke is a big defensive presence in there.

We knew that match would be close. I was happy to see Spike open up. We told him if he did that he would get a couple of good shots and all it takes is one.

Mark Thompson

We knew it would take a couple of weeks for him to get going, but we just knew that at some stage....he would come into this form,

We knew it (would) be a low-scoring game. We gave up a couple of runs and got in the hole early.

We knew it was going to go down to the wire. A couple of swing matches didn't go our way. They were ready to wrestle. They were the better team tonight.

We kind of differ on our views of what we want to do, some of us want to wait to make a full-length till we're a little more established and also get looked at by a couple labels. Others of us want to do it as soon as possible. But we're definitely going to make a full-length album.

We killed ourselves on special teams; we kept making mistakes. It really was frustrating. We just had a couple of breakdowns.

Jeff Carter

We just weren't doing the little things. I thought we should have scored a couple more runs. When we had a guy on third with one out and a guy on second with no outs. We've got to get those runs.

John Walters

We're not radically tearing things up because, for the first time in a couple of decades, we're having dramatic results. We want to keep the pressure on.

Until you get tighter monetary policy in Indonesia, the currency will remain under downward pressure. Weakness in the currency and the rally in oil over the past couple of weeks have just compounded the inflationary expectations.

Neil Peart

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

People are frustrated. The pattern has been a couple of days of rallies on a little good news and then it fizzles out. There's no reason to make big commitments with all of this unresolved. The hope now is that we can dig in our heels at key support levels and find some balance.

People are relying on local fruit, and they have little food to eat. I went out to get bread, and could only get a couple of apples,

Our kids represented our school the right way. We just did not have it in us through the last couple possessions.

Our kids had some fun. They played with some energy and some emotion and got a couple dunks. That's the way the game needs to be played.

Our guys just tried too hard. The errors are something we can fix, but it's just a matter of time until we come around. We're a lot better than what we've showed the past couple of games.