Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Gilchrist

There is no doubt the rest helped me immensely, as it has done in the previous four years. People are questioning a couple of guys having a rest. We have been doing this for a long time now.

When I explain it to people I tell them the decathlon is like running a marathon. You really can't get another one in. It takes a lot out of you. It takes a couple of weeks to recover.

Suzanne Collins

'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

Edward Abbey

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Edward Abbey

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

Eddie Van Halen

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

Aristotle

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Elena Kagan

Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?

Eleanor Smeal

We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we're hoping that there's far - there will be many more women in the cabinet. It appears there will be and we're hoping that will happen. And - but the ones that have been picked, by and large, we have worked with. There's a couple that we haven't, but there - they look like their bio's are great and so we're - we're pushing on.

Dominic Monaghan

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

Dirk Nowitzki

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

Dirk Nowitzki

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

The only person right now who would be able to be in the same sentence with him is Maurice Greene. I think in a couple of years he may surpass that. Justin Gatlin is on his way to being the greatest ever.

David Bowie

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

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.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Seneca did a wonderful job (against Kansas). They don't know, but they say he's very doubtful for New Mexico State. We're discussing (all our options) now and will go through it the next couple of weeks.

So far, we've been to a couple of potential sites in the area. Unfortunately, they haven't panned out. We're still looking high and low every day.

So far we're playing pretty well. We knew that our offense was going to be able to produce runs and our defense has been very solid the last couple of years. The big surprise has been the pitching. We have two freshmen who have done outstanding work.

So far, so good. We've got one win here, we'd like to keep going and win a couple of more now.

Herbie Hancock

So, he taught me how to play a simple riff and I somehow found a couple of other notes to play, then I learned how to watch his left hand and I learned where the notes were.

Aaron Lewis

So many people have pumpkins, you can go to every grocery store in the county, some gas stations, farmer's market, some doughnut shops, you name it, ... Last year he had a lot, thousands of pumpkins, but this year he just planted a couple of acres. They just weren't a big deal.

She usually will throw a strike in the first couple of pitches; our youth played a factor in this one.

She threw really well. She was big for us in a couple of areas.

She was too far out. If I could have taken a couple more dribbles, I probably could have gotten around her, but I decided to shoot it.

She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a couple of games with her shooting free throws down the stretch.