Famous Quotes & Sayings

If it doesn't rain much more over the next couple of months, we'll probably be in conservation-restriction mode by summer.

If it was a fight, they knocked us down a couple times that round and we did not respond.

Dave Mustaine

Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.

We were cruising right along. He left a couple of pitches up and over the plate. That stuff happens.

Scott Skiles

We need to play 40-plus minutes of really good basketball. The last couple games, we've got 30-plus, but that's not good enough at this level to win the game.

We need to be better, but we definitely made some improvements from how it was here over the past couple of years.

We never thought in 1991 that six years later we'd be making that historic walk with Silver Charm. We looked like a couple of teenagers walking through there.

We never stop attacking. Defense is what got us here. Defense is how we've made our name over the past couple seasons. We try to stay on top of teams, and good things usually happen.

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

We need a couple more players to give us six to eight points a game. If we can get to 40 points, we'll win a lot of games.

Well, as far as going for a championship the past couple of years, we (the division) haven't really had a real contender,

Bill Condon

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

Bill Engvall

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign.

Big Sean

I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes.

C. S. Lewis

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Bill Vaughan

If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

LeBron James

(The All-Star Game is) over and done with. We have to come in (tonight) and concentrate on Orlando. We've been (above .500) a couple times this year. We haven't been 11 or 12 games (over .500). It's time to make a run. We have a different mindset from last year.

That's the thing. You get a couple of innings like that and you can go six or seven innings. His curve was working. His fastball up (high) was working, an outstanding outing for a sophomore.

Wayne Rogers

That's the main reason: We've been delayed by wet weather a couple of times.

That's the key for us ? play hard each night. It doesn't matter who we're playing as long as we play hard each night. I feel like, if we had played hard like that a couple of games earlier, we could have had a couple of victories instead of losses.

Phil Garner

That's unbelievable. That's what St. Louis has done so well the last couple of years. They seem to have played real well in our division.

Tom Cruise

That stuff is actually going to happen in the next couple of weeks. We are going to decide where and when and how. Really whatever Kate wants, you know.

Clint Hurdle

That's been a redeeming quality, that he has been able to slow things down and been able to get an inning over with before it completely got out of hand. He said he has not been comfortable out of the stretch the last couple of games. I told him I didn't think he was lying. I told him either we have to find a way to make him comfortable or for him to not let any guys get on.

That's been a big weakness of ours the last couple of years. We don't have real strong outside shooters.

That's a tough team. They're just a couple seconds away from being a really good team. We know what they're going through from last year.

Rick Carlisle

That's a tough one, a tough one to lose. It's too bad, the guys really fought hard. If we had gotten a couple more stops the last couple of minutes, it would have been a different story.

I was really happy to see Garth get through. He lost a couple tough ones, but dug himself out of the rut and got himself back to Hershey.

I was quite nervous before the race because I hadn't raced in so long. Learning to run with people again, getting back into the swing of it again. You need a couple of races to get going.

I was proud of the way we met physicality with physicality tonight. Karl Hollingsworth was fantastic and needs to play like that every time. Lipscomb is playing extremely well right now and we were just a couple of plays away from winning this game.